Redwood: Ever since Lord of the Rings, I’ve had this nightmare of redwood trees running amok and pulling apart anyone with an expensive deck or sauna. I know that this isn’t likely but aren’t we all supposed to follow our dreams? My dreams say, “Cut this tree down and pour acid on the roots”
Crabapple: Crabapples are like rhubarb: They are not food, but people go out of their way to make them into food. How? Sugar, baby! A whole lot of sugar. Enough to make the crabapple component of the recipe completely irrelevant. Why do we eat them? It’s preferable to giving the neighbor kids something to throw at your car.
Bristlecone Pine: Bristlecone pines can be old… really old. There are bristlecone pines that have been around since before the crucifixion. Did any of them try to stop the crucifixion? No, because bristlecone pines look out for bristlecone pines…
Oak: Oak trees drop pieces of tree-shrapnel called “acorns” on your head and roof for a few months a year. Their primary purpose is to feed tree rats or “squirrels”. If you have an oak tree looming over your house, your entire autumn is spent lying awake in anticipation of when the next acorn is going to thud against your roof.
Larch: Ever since watching Monty Python, whenever I hear this tree’s name, my brain intones, “Number three, the larch… the… larch…”
Banyan: Most trees are content with where they are but banyan trees spread roots all over God’s green earth because they are avarice in tree form. They just take and take and take and one day, she leaves you for another tree…
Yucca: The yucca tree has leaves that function as crippling pikes that can, from my own experience, go deeply into your ankle causing great pain. This is understandable because the yucca is protecting a fruit that tastes like nothing and you definitely don’t want to give THAT away without a fight…
Bamboo: Any plant that grows up to a foot a day will probably end up strangling you in your sleep.
Holly: If you own a holly tree and you own children, good luck letting them walk around the yard barefoot. The leaves of the holly tree are unholy, child-crippling caltrops; But, your children’s screams of pain should taper off after they’ve poisoned themselves on its attractive but poisonous berries.
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
I rather like this post ‘cos though
We’re always told to be
So sick’ningly positive
You hate so many trees.
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Considering the words that rhyme with “yucca”, I can see a poem about one and Samuel L. Jackson…
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You must make a post “Tree I love”!😁😁😁 Bet there are none…😁😁😁
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That made me laugh out loud, John. After thinking about it, I have to conclude that you are probably right…
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Haha bristle cones are in it for number one…. fuckers
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Don’t get me started on bristlecone pines…
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Haha I don’t even know what that is I had to google it
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Did you see what they look like?
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Yes between me and google we know everything
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Worthy list of undesirable trees! I never realized I disliked some of these trees either until you brought my attention to the subject. And yes – you got me laughing again on the Banyan and the Yucca!
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My brother and I were climbing mountains in El Paso and he got about an inch and a half of yucca spine in his leg. When I tried to cut it out with my knife, he was positively indignant… and by “indignant” I mean, he screamed in pain until I stopped…
Seems I failed as a mountain climber and as a surgeon all in one day…
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Hahaha – Ouch! Stupid yucca tree 🙂
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It’s not a tree, but any type of ivy. I just imagine it saying “feed me Seymour!” Then it lurches out like an arm, wraps around your throat, and pulls you in, wrapping you up like a tasty morsel for later – like a spiders web.
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Yeah, but it beats buying plant food…
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I wouldn’t be able to. The ivy killed and consumed me! The weirdest part is I don’t have this irrational nonsense in my head when other people go near ivy. Just me. I must have had a really bad nightmare about ivy as a kid…or I was killed by it in a previous life. I don’t know!
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At lot of people have nightmares about kudzu… it grows amazingly fast…
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