nosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting & such trees are called gemels.
This is an example (BΓΌkk National Park, Hungary) where one tree was cut.
The Big Dipper is a circumpolar bright asterism in the constellation Ursa Major.
This is where you find it around the North Star at the same time in different seasons.
