These Trees Look Like A Hipster Paint Job But They’re All Nature And It’s Incredible

These trees wouldn’t look out of place at any good hipster festival and you wouldn’t be blamed for thinking they’ve been attacked with a paintbrush. Though, the reality is that the hipsters (or humans in general) have had nothing to do with it and this is just nature at work.

The Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree is native to the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and the natural peeling of bark from the tree offers these stunning results. It’s basically the bark drying and peeling off, which reveals different coloured layers beneath it.

If these trees had a rainbow-esque song written about them, it’d go ‘bright green and dark green and blue and purple, pink and orange and red and maroon…and brown’ – ok, so the song doesn’t work but that explains the order of the layers and their colours. When the cycle is completed, it starts all over again.

The bark, of course, falls off the trees at different rates meaning every tree has its own individual pattern and when combined in a forest full of other Rainbow Eucalyptus trees the beauty of the results is breathtaking.

According to When On Earth, the trees were planted on Maui, Hawaii highway and swampy areas of Africa to soak up the water, prevent mosquitoes from breeding and reduce the spread of malaria. Brains and beauty then, nice. Nature really is astounding, and these shots of natural phenomena will prove that if you’re still having doubts.