It doesn’t really show up well, but the tree in the center apparently swallowed and digested another tree. i.e. It encased a tree that died and rotted.
Taken June 10, 2015 in Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP)
The beauty of mountains is that they show so many faces in such little space. We were on a sunny mountainside topped with tufts of dry grass. Then we crossed over a saddle-point on a ridgeline, and this was the new view.