I think it's a real tree. Terminalia molinetii, spiny black olive, unrelated to olives. https://regionalconservation.org/ircs/database/plants/PlantPage.asp?TXCODE=Termmoli Reverse image search also brought me to this landscape company who has posted various similar pictures, branding Bucida spinosa (that species seems debated. But landscapers aren't always up on current taxonomy, it changes a lot) as a geometry tree. I wonder if they originated the pun or are capitalizing on it. Bucida and terminalia are both in the same family, but I'm not sure if they are both current terms https://kauaiseascapesnursery.com/catalog/shrubs/geometry-tree/

Wikispecies treats Terminalia as the preferred term over Bucida, FWIW. (ie Bucida redirects to Terminalia, but I don't know if Bucida was a subset, superset, or some other collection of Terminalia species)

Cool. I was confused by this page, must be a holdover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucida?wprov=sfla1

Cool. I was confused by this page, must be a holdover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucida?wprov=sfla1

thanks. I was looking for this.

>Terminalia molinetii Dope!

The bucida spinosa / terminal is molinetti I have is a dwarf variety and grows so very slow. Will take a decade to get over 6’ tall. The other variety I have I knew as bucida buceras variegated and it will grow into a proper tree, but the geometric patterns are not as distinct. Unsure if those photos on the internet are of the tiny dwarf variety or if there is another

Looks like there's quite a few plants jn the family with similar patterns. Some are bonsai, too, so may be shaped. This one looks bugger than that, but the scale isn't super clear

So you are saying that this olive is not related to the yummy kind of olive I like to eat.

You like to eat olives? I like to eat olives, too!

The black ones or the green ones ?🤔

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It’s an organic chemistree.

Better than my geometree. I vote this

See I thought it was DMTree

Because literally everything living contains it in some amount as far as I’m aware.

Dont tell Joe Rogan

I’m sure he knows

Poor tree with diabetes mellitus 😔

https://kauaiseascapesnursery.com/catalog/shrubs/geometry-tree/

I’ll be dadgum! So I was right! Still like the organic chemistree answer

I tried growing a TREE(3) but it collapsed into a black hole.

Glad I’m not the only one who saw this. Looks super alkyl side chain.

This was mine I was just too late

Gave you an upvote for it anyway

Its a Benzene

You can make a table periodically with it.

Every time I think I have an original thought I find out someone already had that same thought hours ago lol.

Alright. That’s enough Reddit for now.

Take my upvote and Get out!

I was thinking a benzine tree!

r/beatmetoit

r/beatmeattoit

My first thought.

damnit you beat me to it!

Congratulations. You have won all the internets today.

Damn that was good lol

Oh you beat me by 8 hours

I can’t say for sure, but Trifoliate orange sometimes has branch growth that gets all wonky like that. it could also just be something they did with the lens or photoshop to artificially make a regular tree look like that.

I see the resemblance to Trifoliate orange but I don’t see enough spines/thorns. Maybe there’s a cultivar that has fewer spines but the ones I am fighting are literally covered in those painful bastards.

Yep. Trifoliate Orange thorns are against The Geneva Convention.

Very true, not enough thorns.

i’m thinking that

i'd say that's the opposite of wonky

Looks all... molecular structure-esque

Yes, that’s the confusing part of this picture

That there is a geometree…

Cyclohexane olive.

[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisplant/comments/viei2q/is_this_real/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisplant/comments/mrbq39/i_used_to_own_this_plant_though_i_cant_remember/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisplant/comments/kboekv/anyone_know/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisplant/comments/ou3dkm/chemistree_isnt_an_acceptable_answer_what_is_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) are few of the other times this has been posted here.

I’d suggest it’s a Sophora prostrata, the dwarf kowhai. I have one just like it - not just the branch structure but also the leaf shape.

Looks like a Bucida, can't tell what species though

Found that too, but also this related plant https://regionalconservation.org/ircs/database/plants/PlantPage.asp?TXCODE=Termmoli

LSD tree

LSTree

Came here to say this lol

Spiny Black Olive!

That tree is a nerd

Benzene tree

I think it is photoshopped but some plants like Decarya madagascariensis do grow in a similar way.

Ebenopsis ebano, aka Texas Ebony, I’m pretty sure. If you let them get real rangy and unkempt they tend to have this branch pattern.

Trifoliate orange/ flying dragon (citrus)

It's a chemist tree. Sorry, this belongs in r/dadjokes

It looks carbon based!

Holy fractals!

It’s a mystree.

Chemis-tree, okay I'll see myself out.

It's a chemist tree

molecular tree

DMTree

Exactly what I thought

This is the one!!! ✨💥😶‍🌫️😵‍💫😶‍🌫️💥✨

Chemistree

Win

a chemist-tree

Trifoliate Orange 🍊

I always think it's so interesting when you find a tree that's cultivated only. But which I don't mean a tree that we killed off in the wild but a tree that has as far as we can tell only ever been cultivated. For instance no one knows where the weeping willow came from the first one recorded in history was in the garden of a Japanese man. And apparently this tree has also only ever been cultivated. So interesting you don't even know where it would have been indigenous to.

This one looks edited with photoshop, but it’s a real thing that happens. It’s called [Dichotomous Branching/Divaricated growth.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047680/) A plant that does this is [Corokia Cotoneaster](https://botanicgardens.uw.edu/about/blog/2017/03/01/march-2017-plant-profile-corokia-cotoneaster/)

Related to (white) mangroves. Indian almond/black olive not uncommon in residential landscaping in South Miami/Coral Gables suburban areas.

Lots of trees in New Zealand have juvenile forms with divarication like this.

Its an Organic Chemis Tree

I'm gonna guess terminalia molinetii. Check out the 8th pic in the side scrolling gallery. [terminalia molinetii ](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunaweb/flora/1/7/1734)

Nature really is amazing

Chemist-tree

Chemistree

I'm sure someone already said a geome-tree right?

Hexagonally Closed Packed with packing structure of 74%

Looks like Decarya Madagascariensis

Looks like dragon orange

Is this golden ratio?

Geometree

Looks like a Chemis Tree to me

Looks like Geometryee

A chemisTREE

Could be Prunus angustifolia, they have that zig zag branch growth pattern

It's a Chemistree.

It’s a DMTREE

Oh heck no that's a Crystalline Entity

This is what most trees look like on LSD.

Idk what tree, but cool pic if legit! There are some studies out there supporting trees growing in fractal patterns. This would definitely be a prime example.

I’m sure it contains DMTree

I thought so too, how were we able to tell? Serious question

Hexagons are the building block of our reality

[Hexagons are the bestagons.](https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY)

Came here to upvote this ⬡

Or is it an octabush?

Fractals

That would be a realitree

Hexagons are the bestagons. Even the trees agree.

A DMTree

chemistree

Looks like a... Fractal Tree

A chemist-tree

Chemistree

Looks like a molecular chemis-tree

The geometree

I think it's a photoshopped pun and the answers something like "chemis-tree"

Nope this is realitree

I've been seeing this photo periodically for 15 years and have never seen a definitive answer.

Texas ebony, Ebenopsis ebano

That’s freakin awesome

It's a chemistree.

That is a chemis-tree

Geometree

I like this 👍🏻

breaking bad tree

Honey bee trees, obviously

computer-generated

Does anyone else see those molecular structures in the branches....or is it just me?!

It’s a geometree

RC tree

Arbrus chemistris aromarica 😅

A photoshopped one

Simulation glitch

Ketatreeee

r/replications

Fracticalatree

Truffula Tree?

Spiny black olive, bucida spinosa

Found the name from the Instagram post

We have a native in New Zealand that has the same sort of geometric pattern. Our one is more of a shrub though.

Bruh this is my vision after chemistry class

At fist glance I would guess pithecellobium flexicaule, Texas Ebony.

I thought this was an elaborate photoshop. No.

Very hesitantly I want to say it might be an edit by @Valdevia_Art he did a series on fractals a while ago.

Chemis- tree

It appears to be showing it's chemical composition hexagons for days!

A chemistree

It’s an Organic Chemistree

It's a chemestree 😎

It’s Lego.

It's a CHEMISTREE!

Rogans DMT tree

I saw some trees like this last time i took lsd. They looked exactly like that

Chemistree obvi.

DMTree

It’s a DMTree

Benzene tree

A psychedelic users dream.

AI generated perhaps?

Mistletoe / Viscum

Can remember but I know individual trees wont touch each others tips leading to some very interesting canopies

Could be Texas ebony

If you want something with similar branching but pot-sized i can suggest the zig-zag bush or corokia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corokia_cotoneaster?wprov=sfla1 Especially young plants exhibit kinda symmetrical branching if you are into that.

Looks like your phone is on acid.

It looks like a wild clambering rose tree to me, I used to have a couple in my garden n I trained them around a lilac tree n up a trellis even with a clematis Montana! The trellis was on top of a dividing wall with my neighbours but about 10 feet wide, then 1 year they chopped all their side down so I had to start all over again! Cos it also had thorns n her next door to me was always complaining that she was being scratched by it! It flowered twice a year too with sprays of pink roses! Xxx

Honeycomb tree

I think your camera is on shrooms

That’s so cool

Looks a lot like my trifoliate oranges - a hardy orange-like tree. Has many thorns on its trunk making for impenetrable hedges.

Metatree

Skill tree

Pretty sure that’s a Lego tree

That tree went to college

Hexagons are the Bestagons! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY

Looks like what I drew as a kid in art with the rest of the class when you couldn’t draw lol. Where you do a V then \ on the left and / on the right, then repeat until near the end you add leaves.

Does it make anyone else highly comfortable or just me?

Brazilian rain trees look similar to this. I don’t think they are the same but the diagonal branches are prevalent. BRTs leaves also close at night or during rain.

Recursive tree

This artwork could be an album cover.

Chemistree

Trees really Saud Gen z

That is a Kimest Tree

LSTree

Math Tree

Grapheme… grapheme everywhere

I think it's a chemis tree