Field guide No. 470

Looking up from the bottom of a deep sinkhole, a whole uprooted tree floats sideways across the open sky, roots and branches spread. It fell in and then thought better of it.

Self-suspended tree in a sinkhole

Hanging on by nothing.

Looking up from the bottom of a deep sinkhole, a whole uprooted tree floats sideways across the open sky, roots and branches spread. It fell in and then thought better of it.

Field noteA tree over a sinkhole either holds on or falls in. This one does neither, with nothing to grip.

Specimen
No. 470
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
The bottom of a limestone sinkhole.
Nearest existing relative
An uprooted tree.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics