Tree tattoo ideas

1,120 photos and flash · 45% Botanical, 20% Realism · Forearm most common

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Neo-traditional tattoo on a leg of a head wearing a knitted beanie and tartan scarf, with the face filled by mountains, pines and a teal sky.
Mountain landscape within a head in a knit beanie
Woman lying on dark bedding showing a dark branch-like tattoo on her thigh and a tattooed forearm, with a navel piercing and a black top with a white skeleton hand print.
Branch tattoo on thigh with forearm design
Black-ink tree root and bark tattoo covering the back of a hand and fingers, drawn in fine hatched linework.
Tree roots tattoo across the back of a hand
Black and grey realism forest tattoo across a forearm, showing bare trees, a pine, birds, a moon and soft clouds.
Forest scene on a forearm
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a tree with spreading branches and exposed roots running along the ribs and side of the torso.
Tree with roots on the ribs
Black and grey tree tattoo across the upper arm and shoulder, with birds, a faint musical staff, a small red berry and roots reaching down the arm.
Tree with birds and roots on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of a leafless tree whose branches spread from the navel across the stomach, with a shaded moon above it.
Bare tree and moon on abdomen
Black ink pine tree tattoo running up the inner forearm, with a tall thin trunk and soft, feathered branches in a botanical style.
Pine tree tattoo on a forearm
Forearm tattoo of three owls perched on a branching tree, each owl with a coloured circular medallion holding a simple figure, in black and grey shading with colour accents.
Three owls on a branch down a forearm
Black and grey forearm tattoo of a lion face made from tree branches, set within a wooded landscape.
Lion face formed by trees on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a figure walking beside a fox among bare trees inside a circle, on the inner wrist.
Fox and figure in a circular woodland scene
Solid black silhouette pine tree tattoo on an ankle, with a white paper stencil of the same tree beside it.
Pine tree silhouette on an ankle
Black ink tree with a stippled canopy above the script quote 'i climbed the tree to see the world' on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Tree and script quote on the inner wrist
Black linework tree of life tattoo with green leaves and spreading roots, in a botanical style, on a area of skin.
Tree of life with roots on skin
Black circuit board tree tattoo across a person's upper back, with branching lines and circular nodes, shown in a full view and a close-up.
Circuit board tree on upper back
Black and grey tree with exposed roots and hand-lettered quote tattooed on the side of the ribs, above hatched ground lines.
Bare tree with lettered quote on ribs
Colourful dotwork tattoo of a house lifted by balloons under a moon, set in an oval landscape on the upper arm.
Balloon house in an oval on an upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of a couple under an umbrella inside an ornate scrolled frame, with small red accents, on the side of the body.
Umbrella couple in an ornate frame
Traditional style colour tattoo on a forearm showing red roses, two round picture frames and a banner reading There is no place like home.
Roses and frames with a home banner on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing two red roses around an ornate grey oval frame holding a graveyard scene under a teal sky.
Roses and graveyard in an ornate frame on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of a bird in flight above a tree on a person's upper back, with a thin red ribbon curling around the trunk and branches.
Bird and tree on upper back
Small watercolour design of a circular sunset landscape with a pale moon, lilac mountains and dark pine trees, with a handwritten date below, on textured paper.
Circular sunset landscape watercolour
Black ink drawing of a bare tree with spreading branches inside a brushed enso-style circle, with ink spatter at the base, shown on a white background.
Bare tree inside a brushed black circle
Colour tattoo of a lakeside landscape with mountains, a large tree and two silhouetted figures sitting by the water, on the calf.
Lakeside landscape with two figures on a leg
Back of a person showing a tattoo of a guitar body shape filled with a red and orange sunset, trees and a tent, with a dark treeline forming the neck on the upper back.
Guitar silhouette landscape across upper back
Realistic colour tattoo of a red open-top Jeep driving through grey trees and smoke on an upper arm.
Red open-top Jeep on an upper arm
Colour realism sleeve tattoo on the upper arm and shoulder showing a tree with glowing branches, two embracing figures in the trunk, roots and green aurora sky.
Tree of embracing figures on an upper arm sleeve
Three people seen from behind, each with a matching black bare tree and birds tattoo on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Matching bare trees with birds on three backs
Back view of two legs with a watercolour-style tree on the left calf and a splashed bird on the right thigh, in pink, blue, green and teal.
Watercolour tree and bird on both legs
Black ink drawing of a tall pine tree with layered branches on a white background, a design that could suit a botanical tattoo.
Tall pine tree in black ink
Black and grey tattoo of a windswept tree breaking into birds, with a script quote below it, across a person's upper back and shoulder blade.
Windswept tree and script quote on upper back
Black and grey bare tree tattoo with soft shaded background covering the upper arm and shoulder.
Bare tree across an upper arm
Back view of a person sitting on grass, with a small solid black pine tree tattoo in a silhouette style on the upper back.
Pine tree tattoo on upper back
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a bare tree with roots across a person's back, with script lettering running beside the spine and down the side.
Bare tree with roots across a back
Black and grey realism tattoo of a large tree with spreading canopy and twisted trunk on the forearm, with the word BALANCE in capitals beneath it.
Tree with BALANCE lettering on a forearm
Black ink tattoo of a bare tree above a vertical cross, with a heartbeat line running across it, on a forearm.
Tree, cross and heartbeat line on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo covering a forearm, with the word Money in script, a skull, smoky shapes and bare branches, reaching down toward the hand.
Black and grey skull and smoke forearm sleeve
Black dotwork tattoo on the outer thigh showing a stylised tree line above a horizon, with a stippled, reflected diamond pattern below and small blue accents.
Stylised trees and diamond pattern on thigh
Black pine tree tattoo on a forearm, shown as a solid silhouette with a tapered trunk, with a woven bracelet on the wrist and sunlight flaring across the arm.
Pine tree on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a bear head in front of a pink and teal sunset, with a blossoming branch and leaves, on the upper arm.
Bear head, sunset and branch on upper arm
Four-panel photo of a black blackwork tattoo of a forest of tall bare and leafy trees with a white deer in negative space, wrapping around a forearm.
Forest silhouette with deer on a forearm
Brown leaf tattoo with a wolf silhouette and bare branches on the left side of a person's ribs, shown in two close-up photographs.
Leaf with wolf silhouette on ribs
Black ink drawing of a bare tree with a heart-shaped root system, a small hanging heart and several birds in flight, a blackwork-style design with no body placement shown.
Bare tree with heart roots and birds
Black and grey realism tattoo of a bare tree with branches spreading out from the navel, with a moon tattoo above it on the side of the torso.
Bare tree and moon on torso
Black and grey photograph of a person's legs with tall pine tree silhouette tattoos running from thigh to ankle, in a botanical style.
Pine tree silhouettes down both legs
Black and grey tattoo of a bare tree with birds flying above misty grass on the inside of a forearm.
Bare tree and flying birds on a forearm
Black and grey blackwork and dotwork tattoo of a city skyline, mountains, conifer trees and a geodesic dome across the shoulder and upper back.
Cityscape with mountains and geodesic dome on a shoulder
Back view of a woman with her hair in a bun, showing a small black fine line pine tree tattoo centred on her upper back.
Fine line pine tree on upper back