Why? Any ideas?

>starts to grow
>goes where there is sunlight
>suddenly higher than all the little shrubs
>start growing strait up

Maybe they were affected by heavy winds when they were small, or gradual soil movement over time? Trees can look pretty gnarled and dumb when they've had to adapt to being pushed around and moved

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>>2152861
If so, why such thing isn`t common?
>>2152887
Probably you`re right. I found out that there was a tornado 40 years ago.

You know, people could have done this intentionally, right?

Quite common in the past when wood was used much more as a building material.

Where was this pic taken?
I can tell you that the tribes in the western parts of the US used to bend over trees and put rocks on them to make them grow similarly to these, others are tied into knots. Supposedly they were used as site markers or the like so that the people would know where they were/ could find resources again
I.e.: oh hey, it's the double knotted tree, water can be found in the direction that it has been pushed to grow in.

if it's in the base it's environmental and if it's in the top it's usually caused by a large bird nest i.e storks.

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Shipwrights need arching pieces of wood for the ships' ribs.

it's actually flooding

>start to grow
>flood
>stem still weak
>water pushes stem towards an angle
>sunlight in opposite direction
>gotta get that sweet photon
>tree bends towards sunlight

>>2154115
this.
other possibilities are avalanche or wind knocking the trees over but not killing them.

or landslide.

any way you look at it, it's some action that knocks a bunch of small trees over in the same direction all at once.