The picture shows that it&#x27;s surrounded by comrades. Those comrades are the shrubs around it. Until recently, this tree was the same way. Quoting the Wikipedia entry at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Old_Tjikko" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Old_Tjikko</a> :<p>&gt; For thousands of years, the tree appeared in a stunted shrub formation (also known as a krummholz formation) due to the harsh extremes of the environment in which it lives. During the warming of the last century, the tree has sprouted into a normal tree formation