And the beams may have been strengthened with steel, but in some rooms they still resemble gnarled tree trunks.

Commonly growing as a gnarled tree up to 15 m (50 ft) in height, it can be much smaller in more exposed areas.

In the foreground, a highly engineered grid protects the trunk of a gnarled tree.

This gnarled tree grows preferentially in riparian forest, where it a common pioneer species growing to a height of 1020 m.

Growing as a gnarled tree to 7 m (23 ft) high, it has large green leaves up to 22 cm (8.7 in) long with dentate (toothed) margins.