Why did this tree have horns?

The tree is possessed by a demon.

maybe an infection or fungus? It could have developed/evolved that way.

A few species of trees naturally have thorns or “horns” as you call them. Check out this.

There are quite a few species that have trunk-born thorns.

@deni Do you have a shot showing the leaves and the foliage? I wouldn’t want to slide down that sucker.

It looks like a Googoobeff tree. It is a tree that is native to countries like Trinidad and Jamaica. There is also a tree called a Shatine tree that also has thorns. You should have taken a picture of the leaves of the tree, I would have had a better lead to go on. Research these trees that I have told you and you would maybe get a good lead on that particular type of tree.

Hey just spoke to my dad who is a gardener. He says that it may be an immortel tree and it can also be a silk cotton tree. Next time you see it look at the type of flowers it produces and see if it produces cotton.

Oh man, there were trees like that all over Central America. The worst ones were referred to as come-and-go (not sure of their real name) but yea you could be hiking through the jungle and get all sorts of fucked up and stuck on this damn tree :P

Scratch that, it was actually called the give-and-take tree. I just found its scientific name as well if anyone is interested it’s Crysophila stauracantha

@uberbatman In Belize they called them monkey-no-go trees.

@Eggie It was dead, which is why I found it surprising. Totally dry, fallen onto the ground, no leaves or anything. I’m gonna look up the ones you mentioned….

@uberbatman That thing looks terrible! Wouldn’t wanna trip and stumble into that beast, which I would most definitely do.

@Eggie Neither of those yielded any results for me. Is that the correct spelling?

@syz interesting. I never heard that term while down there. Just give and take and the bastard tree :P

Silk Cotton, try google imagery.

@Eggie Woahhhh that is a bad ass tree. I don’t think that’s what the one I saw was though, it looked like a really normal dead tree, not wide or crazy looking at all. Just a barren trunk, with horns haha.