I hope this is gum-like enough for everyone, because I've run out of time to work on just this one tree.

Joshua tree?

(two random seed variants of the same model)

@WeathermanSweden Oh wow! That's seriously cool! I didn't know you could tag people like that! I only just found out that Remy has updated the forum already to allow full screen shot pasting direct (see above).

I learn what I need to know about CC3 from this forum and the PF staff. And I learn everything else about other apps by searching for apps that will do specific jobs, then watching YouTube videos ;)

ngPlant (the software I am using to model the trees and speed up the process a bit) is available here: http://ngplant.org/

There is a YouTube video, but I can't seem to locate it right now.

It's sort of getting there now. I just have to get the hedgehogs out of the top of the tree.

Well, I was looking at both the desert trees and thinking that with ngplant if I could just get one about right a few tweaks with phototropism and inclination would give me the other one, so I might be able to do a couple of Joshua trees and some Dracaena Cinnabari - but quickly add to that comment that I'm not entirely sure this is going to work.

I'll give it this evening and see if I can make this strange finger thing look a bit like one or the other of them. Think positive thoughts! This is very much how the saguaro symbols started out.