The cryptic cryptoforests of Plymouth and Utrecht

Overgrown residential houses are a special case of cryptoforestry: their status as cryptoforests is cryptic; their function is always (?) the expression of unhappiness and social inconvenience.

'It's so bad, it's worse than the Berlin Wall'

Petr provided the link to the Plymouth ferns above, and they reminded me of these pictures below of a nearly invisible house in Utrecht (Amsterdamsestraatweg).

Westraven Cryptoforest Psychogeography 6 June 2010

Some pictures taken during the Westraven Cryptoforest walk, with gratitude to Theun Karelse and Pieter Bol for additional presentations and to Titus for the KML.

A satellite image of Westraven from April 2005, what is at 

present the most enigmatic cryptoforest of all, is here a barren pockmarked field scarred by the petro-chemical complex. The yellow line shows our path as recorded by GPS. 

Unsuspected habitation, nobody was home. 

Gonzo botany, admiring the biodiversity, looking for edible species. 

This barely visible half-trodden path leads into a dark forest.

What remains of the shelter of a former occupant of the crypto-forests, waste suggests a construction date of summer 2005.

The crypto-forest reclaims the cobbled street.

Call in the Michelin-starred chefs: rocket salad, with a delicious bitter taste can be harvested near many major roads.