Tree tattoo ideas

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Black linework tattoo of tree roots and bark spreading across the back of a hand and over the fingers, in a botanical style.
Tree roots tattoo across a hand
Black ink drawing of a broad oak tree with stippled leaves and a full root system spreading beneath it, on a plain white background.
Oak tree with spreading roots, black ink design
Black line drawing of a leafy tree with swirling branches and twisted roots, with a small bird above, shown as a design on white.
Tree with swirling branches and roots
Black and grey realism tattoo on a forearm showing a white rabbit holding a pocket watch, with a teacup and saucer and a small silhouette below.
White rabbit and teacup forearm sleeve
Back of a person in a black sports bra with a small black fine line pine tree tattoo centred on the lower back.
Pine tree on the lower back
Collage of four watercolour-style tattoos: a pink and blue cat on the thigh, a rainbow splash with script on the forearm, a black tree with birds on the shoulder blade, and a colourful owl on the
Watercolour cat, tree, owl and splash tattoos
Black and grey compass rose tattoo on the palm of a hand, with muted purple map shading and a sprig of branches at the wrist.
Compass rose and map shading on a palm
Black stencil design of a gnarled, leafless tree with a skull in its trunk, shown on a white card against a dark green backdrop.
Gnarled dead tree with skull stencil
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a shaded mountain range and a pine tree on a person's upper back, with a small star pattern joined by thin lines above the peaks.
Mountain range, pine and star pattern on upper back
Colour tattoo across a person's upper back showing a circular landscape, with a night mountain and pine scene on the left and a red sunset over water with a blossoming tree on the right.
Split landscape with tree across a back
Fine line tattoo of three sheep beneath a bare tree with green dots of foliage and grass, on the side of a foot above a striped canvas shoe.
Three sheep under a tree on an ankle
Black linework tree with bare branches and carved orange jack-o'-lantern pumpkins with green leaves, tattooed across an upper arm and shoulder.
Pumpkin tree on upper arm
Black fine line Eiffel Tower tattoo on a forearm, held up in front of the real Eiffel Tower across a grassy park in Paris.
Eiffel Tower tattoo on a forearm
Collage of five photographs showing black tree of life tattoos on a back, a foot, a lower back and a circular design on a upper back.
Tree of life tattoos on back and foot
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a tree whose roots and leaves curve into a globe, placed between the shoulder blades on a woman's back.
Tree on a globe across the upper back
Pencil sketch of a woman with eyes closed and a bonsai pine tattoo design across her shoulder and upper arm, drawn in a Japanese-inspired style.
Woman with bonsai pine tattoo design, pencil sketch
Red tree of life tattoo with swirling branches, a central oval and curled roots, centred on the upper back of a woman with dark hair.
Tree of life across an upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a bare tree with birds taking flight above a dark forest, on the forearm of a raised hand.
Bare tree and birds on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo design of three stacked circles showing a swirl, a mountain range and a pine forest, held up on paper by a hand.
Three stacked circles with landscape scenes
Black and grey tattoo design of a cluster of pine trees with soft smoky shading fading into mist, drawn on a pale parchment background.
Pine trees fading into mist
Sheet of eight black symbol designs on white, including a tree, om, heart, lotus and triskel, each labelled in French and English.
Symbol sheet with tree, om, lotus and triskel
Small solid black palm tree silhouette tattoo on the upper back of a person in a black strappy top, in sunlight.
Palm tree on the upper back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a stag standing on a faceted rock beneath a tree, enclosed in overlapping geometric diamond lines on an upper arm.
Stag and tree in geometric frame on upper arm
Two side-by-side photographs of cherry blossom tree tattoos across a back, the left in soft grey and pale blue and pink, the right in realistic pink and green.
Cherry blossom tree across the back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a person's upper back showing a waterfall landscape in a diamond frame, with pine branches, cones and a log beside it.
Waterfall landscape in a diamond on a shoulder blade
Black line drawing of a stylised tree of life with a swirling trunk, leafy branches and curling roots, on a white background.
Swirling tree of life line drawing
Black tree with roots over an orange basketball, with script reading Motivated By Jesus and Dedicated By The Game, on an arm.
Tree and basketball with script quote
Black dotwork and fine line tree of life with branches and roots, enclosed in a dotted circle with arrow marks, on the upper back near the neck.
Tree of life in a dotted circle on upper back
Coloured line drawing of a tree whose trunk forms a double helix, with leafy branches, roots, birds and butterflies, styled as a botanical tattoo design.
Tree of life with DNA helix trunk and roots
Black and grey realism tattoo of a misty pine forest on the inner forearm, fading into dotwork stipple at the lower edge.
Pine forest sleeve on a forearm
Black and grey geometric tattoo of a pine tree inside a dotted diamond frame, with a shaded ornament below, on a lower leg.
Pine tree in a diamond on a calf
Large back tattoo of green and grey aliens, a flying saucer and a fiery sunset landscape, with an alien face tattooed across the head.
Alien and flying saucer back piece
Black and grey ink drawing of a gnarled tree with twisting branches, small leaves and spreading roots, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Gnarled tree with exposed roots
Black and grey realism style tattoo of a bare tree with birds, its trunk merging into an acoustic guitar, on an upper arm and shoulder.
Bare tree and acoustic guitar on upper arm
Black and grey sketch-style tattoo of two birds and flowers across a woman's upper back, with dotwork shading.
Two birds and flowers across a back
Close-up of a small black palm tree tattoo on the side of a finger, held up against blurred green foliage and blue sky.
Small palm tree on a finger
Colour tattoo of a tree with multicoloured leaves growing from an open book, with the word IMAGINE on the trunk and birds above, on an upper arm.
Tree of leaves growing from an open book
Small black fine line tattoo of a pine tree inside a thin circle on the inner upper arm, with a red and white striped sleeve and brick wall behind.
Pine tree in a circle on an inner arm
Colour realism tattoo of figures walking along railway tracks through a wooded area, placed on the calf.
Figures on railway tracks on a calf
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a leaning tree with a triangle and arc linework on the inner forearm, with the paper stencil design beside it.
Stippled tree and geometric lines on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a hare in profile on a thigh, with a misty pine forest and grass filling its body in a neo-traditional illustrative style.
Hare silhouette with forest scene on thigh
Two side-by-side photographs of people seen from behind, each with a black and grey tattoo across the upper back: a row of pine trees on the left and a mountain range on the right.
Pine forest and mountain range tattoos on two backs
Black and grey botanical tree tattoo with ink-wash branches across the upper back of a woman in a red open-back dress.
Black ink tree across a woman's upper back
Black pine tree tattoo on a forearm, with a solid conifer silhouette at the top and a thin trunk line running down the arm.
Pine tree silhouette on a forearm
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with map shapes and stars on the palm, with a tree tattoo on the wrist.
Compass rose and tree on a hand
Black and grey realism tattoo on a forearm showing a moustached man in a high collar, a crow and full moon above his head, and a Victorian house among trees below.
Man's portrait with crow, moon and house on forearm
Small black fine line tattoo of angular chevron-like marks on the inner wrist of a hand resting beside a mug with a painted woodland scene.
Thin angular symbol on an inner wrist
Black and grey drawing of an anatomical heart with branching tree limbs rising above it and a honeycomb hemisphere with spikes beneath, on aged paper.
Anatomical heart with branches and honeycomb