The phrase "striking trees" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a forceful, intentional physical act of hitting or slapping the trunk of a tree. For example, "The lumberjacks spent the day striking trees and collecting fallen logs."
Perhaps the most striking trees are the broad copper beeches, whose purplish leaves glisten, casting a metallic glow.
The truck passed through Wood-Ridge and Carlstadt, and flipped over after running through a red light and around a curve, Mr. Higgins said, striking trees and a pole on a lawn in East Rutherford before coming to a stop.
It suffered no casualties during the campaign but two of its aircraft were written off: one that overshot the landing strip at Tengah in November 1951, and another that crashed into the sea off Johore after striking trees on takeoff in January 1957.
Test them by spinning them, striking trees, or stabbing the ground.
Sometimes he will even take the time to sketch a particularly striking tree, but he is mostly all business.
Figure 2 also shows a striking tree structure difference between regions, particularly R1 versus R3, demonstrating the mosaic nature of the cap gene within these AAV sequences.
It is a striking location: trees and granite cliffs rose up above us on both sides of the foaming Cheakamus, and an old, picturesque railroad bridge was suspended above the water.
Japanese maples These striking little trees never seem to go out of fashion and their dwarf forms are often grown in pots on the patio for their colourful foliage, making them attractive for thieves.
After sufficient descent, he turned back toward the landing area, and barely managed to land without striking Joshua trees at the south end.
Geoffrey A. Orley & Shabahang of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., has a striking Bakhtiari Tree of Life carpet made around 1890 in Persia (now Iran).
The side-impact oblique pole test simulates a single vehicle's striking a tree or a utility pole or a vehicle's being struck in the side by a higher-riding vehicle.
