Dendrophilia (paraphilia)

Dendrophilia (or less often arborphilia or dendrophily) literally means "love of trees". The term may sometimes refer to a paraphilia in which people are sexually attracted to or sexually aroused by trees. This may involve sexual contact or veneration as phallic symbols or both.[1]

A man embracing a tree

The word dendrophilia has also been used in cognitive science. Fitch’s dendrophilia hypothesis deals with trees in terms of cognitive representation, stating that the human brain partakes in abstraction by forming tree structures with data.[2]

References

Corsini, Raymond J. (1999). The Dictionary of Psychology. Psychology Press. p. 263. ISBN 1-58391-028-X.
Fitch, W. Tecumseh (2014-09-01). "Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: Unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition". Physics of Life Reviews. 11 (3): 329–364. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2014.04.005. ISSN 1571-0645.

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[1] Corsini, Raymond J. (1999). The Dictionary of Psychology. Psychology Press. p. 263. ISBN 1-58391-028-X.

[2] Fitch, W. Tecumseh (2014-09-01). "Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: Unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition". Physics of Life Reviews. 11 (3): 329–364. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2014.04.005. ISSN 1571-0645.