Done! Adapted from http://hectorcorrea.com/Blog/Drawing-a-Binary-Tree-in-Ruby, where descendents are called children :)

<Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread>
                                      _____/\_____
                          ___________/\_      ___/\
          _______________/\_           /\_   /\_  z
      ___/\_____           /\_____    t  /\ w  /\
    _/\_      _/\___      n     _/\_    u v   x y
  _/\  /\   _/\   _/\_        _/\  /\
 /\ c d e  /\ h  /\  /\_     /\ q r s
a b       f g   i j k  /\   o p
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Naturally nodes with a width greater than 2 chars breaks it :)

In reply to Re: Challenge: Dumping trees. by Anonymous Monk
in thread Challenge: Dumping trees. by BrowserUk

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