Their graceful slim trunks, the colour of an elephant's skin, are mottled with sinister stains.
In the other end of the scale we have plots dominated by slim trunks (category 'H'), with AGB increasing by 5.4 t/ha/m only.
Said to be hundreds of years old, the tree is partly obscured by smaller, young tulips, but it has become a pilgrimage site for nature lovers who meditate on an abandoned milk crate next to the tree's slim, craning trunk.
Their slim-jim trunks standing at attention like green sculptures in a pale marble room, a formal allee of Alexander coconut palms sprouts from a carpet of glistening white pebbles.
Finally, it marches into the east, a beige grey trunk that begins to slim down into a long translucent tentacle.
Sometimes I might pull together the perfect outfit, successfully swaddle my funky trunk butt/blimpy beer sac into a slim aerodynamic illusion of cuteness, only to be defeated by the reality of my stupid face.
He knows his way around an old-fashioned spiritual, but from the start he delighted in embracing the cultural signifiers of the nonchurch world: Indian incense, hip-hop slang, Rastafarian head wraps, slim-fitting European suits, trunk-rattling bass.
It looks like a slice sawn off from an age-old tree trunk studded with semi-precious insets — turquoise discs with slim red frames that have the colors of Far Eastern cloisonné enamels.
It is proving to be a slim elegant tree, upright in habit with its brittle branches held alternately along its narrow trunk.
It was slim — really slim.
