TERRITORIANS have been making the pilgrimage to the Mecca of nature shaped like a penis - a redwood with a walloping tree cock.

The tree, which could be of the variety Sequoia semperviren, is in California and has a protuberance that hangs down from the trunk near the bottom of the tree.

News_Image_File: That’s a bloody big tree. Picture: Adriana Andrews

Just insert your own wood and dick jokes here, we’ll wait.

To show due reverence to nature, some visitors like to reach up and kiss the end of the mighty excrescence.

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Darwinite Adriana Andrews - whose childhood dream came true when she was photographed with it - simply said the “large apendage hanging off it made me notice it”. And well it would for any red blooded Territorian.

“And yes, although it’s not a photo I’m happy my mum seeing, it delivered the point I was trying to get across,” she said.

The “line went dead” before we could find out what the greater point about tree shaped phallus she had been intent on making.

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Her mum was not contactable yesterday.

In 1961 John Steinbeck wrote about redwoods in his book, Travels with Charley: In Search of America.

News_Image_File: Territorian Lars poses in the cleft of another giant redwood tree. Picture: Adriana Andrews

“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always,” he wrote.

“ ... The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe.”

It is not known if he was writing about this exact tree.

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The tree however is a fine example of the well known phenomena of Penidolia which is where someone sees a penis in nature - such as in a tree, a cloud, or a crudely altered road sign.

The Sequoioideae, the scientific name for redwoods, is a subfamily in the family Cupressaceae and has three genus. They include the tallest tree in the world and the largest by volume.