However I've never seen serious attempts at alien trees so thought I'd give it a go.
First off you need the inspiration and I saw it at 'Homebase' a dried floral bouquet.
The heads of the 'flowers' were obviously 'made' in some way and looked 'alien'.
I had previously made trees using wire and string and resorted to the same idea, odd numbers of wire were twisted together, spread out at the bottom so I could stand/glue the tree to a base.
Why odd numbers? Look around you, nature rarely has an even number of petals, leaves etc and even will always look wrong.
I then wrapped string along the main trunk thickening at the bottom then coated it all with PVA to hold the string in place. I rather liked the effect and didn't want to hide it under caulk.
I'd earlier cut out some MDF, same shaped bases I'd left over from before. I used a router to make depressions for pools on the bases.
Placing any stone and grit with PVA I then undercoated the whole black.
Following the alien theme and being an Iron Warriors player I decided this might be a Chaos planet or one slowly converting.
Certainly it was scorched so I left the undercoat in place, dry brushing the rocks/grit grey, then added patches of PVA for scorched grass flock. I dry brushed the trunks grey and then dry brushed the balls white to lighten the subsequent red and highlighted with orange. The end effect was darker than I liked but worked.
The pools were painted red then I poured PVA over and left it to dry, cheap water effect.
For some reason unknown now I wanted extra contrast so put on some snow flock.
For a 28 mm Cedar of Lebanon look here
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