We toured Topkapi Palace on our 2013 visit to Istanbul. Since it was very crowded and I did not feel like standing in line to go into a museum, I stayed outside and photographed whatever I found. Part of what I found was very interesting trees, especially their bark.

I will start with the famous hollow tree. I read that a fungus attacked but not kill some of the trees, and some became hollow. (I think the black interior of the hollow tree was applied by man, not nature.)

Topkapi Palace has four courtyards, all of them lovely.

I looked closer and realized how strange and beautiful the bark of the trees was, so here are some of the types of bark I found at Topkapi Palace.

And last, a lovely tree in front of the Imperial Mint, and a fall leaf.

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