Monday, October 3, 2011

Lalbagh Gardens - Tree Fossil, Bangalore

The Lalbagh Gardens at Bangalore is an important destination where one can find variety of flowers, fountains, trees. One of them is tree fossil.

This tree fossil is a collection from the Natioanl Fossil Park, Tiruvakkarai, South Arcot in Tamilnadu. It is supposed to be 20 million years old.

The fossil is of petrified coniferous tree.

54 comments:

  1. interesting




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  2. Nature's work of art. Beautiful! Cathy

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  3. One of the attractions of our lalbagh

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  4. Wow, Rajesh, that is absolutely amazing. A petrified conifer 20 million years old! I love it. I'm almost that old myself.

    Kay, Alberta, Canada
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  5. Oh wow I am pretty sure this could be million years old. ^_^

    Yellow Rose

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  6. Amazing! Have a fabulous week.

    Liz @ MLC

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  7. Anonymous09:48

    nice information

    nice photo

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  8. Interesting.....theres one of this in the botanical gardens in Ooty!

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  9. Very interesting, it reminds me of a large Sequoia trunk.;)
    xoxo

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  10. Can you believe its ages since I have visited Lalbagh, If this is there then time I plan a trip, though its only on the other side of the city

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  11. It's really impressive!

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  12. that's interesting!

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  13. Beautiful photo, it's great to see the fossil looks beautiful still even it's very very old already.

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  14. Anonymous19:56

    What an amazing fossil!

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  15. 20 million!!
    wow
    amazing

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  16. True some things just get more beautiful and valuable with age. I love anything about India. Amazing shot.
    QMM

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  17. I find fossilized plants and trees absolutely fascinating, it's an open window in pre-history...makes you feel so small!

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  18. Incredible! And how wonderful that we can still see and touch something so very old! What an amazing world we live in! Have a wonderful week, Rajesh!

    Sylvia

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  19. The tree fossil is fantastic. I love to see the remains of trees.

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  20. Anonymous01:37

    tree fossil!!! love ths post rajesh...i always love ths and feel like using one as stool or center table n my home...

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  21. Rajesh - I can't even imagine that span of time! Did it feel like rock? It's girth is immense.

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  22. Very cool to see this tree fossil. Thanks for sharing. Great shots. Have a great day!

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  23. wow, that is a huge tree fossil! Awesome to see.

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  24. Wow, 20 million years is incomprehendisable. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.

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  25. Tree fossils are impressive. There are some spectacular ones near us, there's a national park dedicated to them.

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  26. is there a hole for children to hide. 20 million years is beyond comprehension.

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  27. . . and a great fossil it is, of a remarkable size as well.
    Thank you for posting this.

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  28. Wow must be a very huge tree.

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  29. the tree looks intriguing. great find and thanks for sharing.

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  30. Fascinating. We have a "forest" of fossilized trees in the western part of the U.S. I remember visiting The Petrified Forest as a child and buying a small piece for a souvenir...don't know what happened to it, though.

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  31. Amazing to ponder how really old this tree is! thanks for sharing

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  32. This is a grand tree fossil, unlike the ones i seen in Ooty and childrens park here. I have been to lal bagh, but i miss checking this.

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  33. Oh it must have been a very huge tree. I prefer that this is displayed inside a covered area or a museum, so the elements and rain will not erode it slowly, that it can still last for longer time!

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  34. An amazing sight!

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  35. impressive structure, and natural.
    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  36. Incredible!! I'm speechless!!

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  37. Amazing how old the world is! How old are we human beings! What did we do to improve humanity, to respect each other? Beautiful fossil tree! Thank you so much!

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  38. Wow! So amazing to see something that is believed to be a million years old. Thanks so much for sharing!

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  39. Wow - that is one impressive fossil - a fascinating post, thank you.

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  40. Wow, that is really cool. What a lovely place to visit!

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  41. That is one huge fossil tree! Fossils are fascinating.

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  42. Very interesting. Always thought it was cool how things like trees and sea shells can polymorph into stone.

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  43. Amazing, imagine what the world was like when it was young. Like what you did with the sign.

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  44. That is a huge piece of petrified wood. We saw many smaller pieces of petrified wood in our Petrified Forest National Park this past June.

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  45. Thank you all for appreciating age old fossil of the tree.

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  46. Amazing. I have seen a petrified Redwood tree at Calistoga years ago, I was so busy looking at it I nearly stepped on a snake.

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  47. Love that! Pretty cool:)

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  48. WOW! Loved it, looks so rustic.. thanks for sharing.

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  49. This looks interesting, I have been to Lalbagh quite a number of times, yet missed this piece.Thanks for sharing!

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  50. OMG! That old and yet so earthly beautiful:)
    Interesting info.

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  51. Thank you. I am glad you all liked it.

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