Thank you all for your responses! That's a good point on root or trunk damage raising the possibility of an "unnatural" direction of split. I will consider all of this is my inspections to come.
Hi all,
This is my first post on this forum. I am a utility forester, and I come across a lot of eucalyptus trees that are codominate at base with included bark. I often wonder "can the tree split sideways?". As in, it seems natural that if the tree is going to split at the union, then one stem...