New Breed Of Tree Discovered In Uptown Greensboro

The Fairview Shopping Center on the corner of 4th Street and Fairview Street (Google map) is home to one of the most unusual trees we've ever seen. From across the street it looks like any other old tree but when you get a bit closer things start getting weird. Click on the photographs to zoom in.

When you walk around to the other side you will find an opening. A hollow tree? Move in a little closer.

Closer still and things get strange.

The tree is filled, top to bottom, with concrete blocks. Sure, someone put them there but how? Why? And when?

A note to whoever does the landscape maintenance for the Fairview Shopping Center: These bushes and that vine growing up the tree are Poison Ivy.