How it works
Each text art tree here was drawn for this page in keyboard characters: 23 pieces, among them a round tree, an apple tree, pines, a willow, a bare winter tree, a stump, two palms and a cactus.
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How the round tree is built
The crown is a ring of parentheses with two bumps of hyphens on top, the trunk is a pair of bars, and two slashes spread the roots. Round tree is 8 lines by 19 columns; the apples, the swing and the falling leaves are drawn on the same tree.
Palm tree text art
Palm trees has two: one alone, 8 lines tall, and one on an island with water around it. For cactus text art, Cactus has a tall stem with two arms and a squash-proof one.
- Tree with a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 15 if you type over the padding.
- For forest text art, Forest of pine trees stands four pines of two heights in 5 lines by 23 columns.
- Trees with a star and ornaments are on Christmas ASCII art.
Questions and answers
How do you make a tree using keyboard symbols?
Stack a slash and a backslash, widen them on the next row, close the third row with underscores, and stand it on two bars. That is Small pine tree, four lines. Pine trees on one line writes a pine as /|\ or //|\\.
Is there an ASCII art tree with no decorations?
All 23 are plain: no star, lights or ornaments. Pine tree, three tiers is 11 lines by 11 columns, and Big oak tree is 11 lines by 27. Decorated trees are on the Christmas ASCII art page.
What is the smallest tree here?
Small tree sapling, three rows of three characters. Tree rings, one line is 11 characters, and Squash-proof pine tree is four rows of six with no space in it.
Which trees keep their shape where spaces fold?
The six under Squash-proof: three one-liners, a pine, an apple tree and a cactus, none with a run of spaces. The cat ASCII art page explains why spaces fold.