Tree oddities

[Bendroctanus]

Not particularly odd, but a great example of a nurse stump.

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My initial thought upon seeing this is I find this a great illustration for parenting.

 

[Winchman]

Found this wound wood gone crazy today.

 

[Treezybreez]

That’s a bacterial canker. Interesting.

 

[oceans]

That almost looks like a weird graft!

 

[evo]

Not particularly odd, but a great example of a nurse stump.

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It’s fun to think that this is entirely an incidental human made phenomenon.

 

[Matias]

I've been meaning to share a good example of the redwoods that survived the big fire, but I finally remembered to get a good picture when I had the opportunity yesterday

They did better that most species around here, but having pruned one of these now, I do wonder what they will look like in 20 or 30 years.

 

[southsoundtree]

Gerry B posted a picture of a redwood that gets a way-nonstandard pruning. Stripped to a topped pole, then allowed to bush out into a columnar shape. It's not a one-off.

I was shocked.

He mentioned the prolific sprouting of redwoods.

 

[Serf Life]

Gerry B posted a picture of a redwood that gets a way-nonstandard pruning. Stripped to a topped pole, then allowed to bush out into a columnar shape. It's not a one-off.

I was shocked.

He mentioned the prolific sprouting of redwoods.

I saw one of those in Garberville by a grocery store. Yr one it was just a stem and then totally covered in epicormics!

 

[chiselbit]

Saw this today.

 

[oceans]

I see this in Eastern Red Cedar fairly often, but it’s still odd “looking”…

 

[evo]

Odd ball Douglas fir. It was topped, had restoration pruning and then this is the third reduction/end thinning
Oddly 0 limb failures, 25% of the canopy I’d over the house, makes for easy pole tool cuts on the roof

 

[Winchman]

What happened there to make the trunk smaller?

 

[Matias]

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What happened there to make the trunk smaller?

I would wager that an old codom came off it many years ago

 

[ClimbingTN]

This fungus is 25” wide and 14” high.

 

[davidwyby]

I have cut salt cedars almost to just spars, and they explode furiously. Very soon they become a solid hedge.

 

[XTREEC]

On a local trail. Not growing sideways however!

 

[southsoundtree]

I would wager that an old codom came off it many years ago

Or a break with a single leader regrown, then years later, it was canopy raised.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Paper beats rock.

 

[ClimbingTN]

I found this in a Red? oak today during a rec climb today.

 

[Serf Life]

I would wager that an old codom came off it many years ago

I read that as "condom"...