Nutrient uptake is hampered and the trees are stunted and gnarled.
The sparsely scattered houses wear a surprisingly uniform aspect of age, squalor, and dilapidation, while the gnarled, solitary inhabitants are silent and furtive.
Only the best trees were felled, leaving the gnarled puriri often found on farm paddocks.
During his career he broke his hands countless times, and was left with deformed, gnarled knuckles and fingers.
Julien has portrayed him in an ample cloak, with a gnarled tree on which a vine with grapes is climbing.
Commonly growing as a gnarled tree up to 15 m (50 ft) in height, it can be much smaller in more exposed areas.
It has also been described as gnarled nu-metal with all the poise of a rhinoceros in a tutu.
On the opposite side of the twisted and gnarled tree stands a naked nymph, listening attentively.
