Tree oddities

[Evo]

You did share that one already, but the first pic is new. I'll ogle all this pics you care to post though buddy! That stuff lights me up!

Oopsies

 

[Neill]

Not too odd, but this inclusion/seem looked a bit like yin/yang

 

[27RMT0N]

Saw this one today, a sealed over/'living stump' with a sapling growing out of it:

 

[chiselbit]

We get those here too although I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sapling growing out of one. That’s cool!

 

[southsoundtree]

Looks like the freak Doug-fir I hoped to have found is a "Skagit Weeper".

 

[False Hemlock]

Pacific Madrone that ate a 8-9mm marine grade rope used for a tree swing. Quite incredible the rope was still in tact and the swing still standing.

 

[False Hemlock]

A "living stump" that either eroded down the shoreline cliffside or washed ashore. Can see the root grafts fully in-tact with a root from another Doug-fir still attached.

 

[Jehinten]

I removed this bald cypress last November. I found yesterday that the log has started sprouting out, going on 9 months since it's removal.

 

[Evo]

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I removed this bald cypress last November. I found yesterday that the log has started sprouting out, going on 9 months since it's removal.

When I was a kid driving through the redwoods, vendors had roadside stands and they would sell cut burls. Little bigger than a half a baseball. Instructions were to set them in a plate of water cut side down and they would sprout a mini forest. Ofcouse they would eventually die, but mine lasted a good few years

 

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[TreeCo]

These pines are not oddities other than the fact that most of their root systems are exposed. Photos taken on the Tennessee River not far from Spring City.

 

[Serf Life]

Sweet! We were having a similar observation last week pulling up some old stumps in fine silty loam

 

[oceans]

I’m going to use these stump photos as reference for a client I just met with. One of their trees in question is a rather nicely shaped Honeylocust that’s just now large enough to shade the patio.

It has 5 huge surface roots indicating poor percolation. If the root plate is too thin, I could see a high potential for windthrow as the tree matures.

I think I will find a sinus and do a small excavation by hand to expose the soil horizons. The client already said it was imported fill used to alter the grade for the entire house build.

I don’t love condemning otherwise healthy trees but if the risk is there I can’t think of any options beyond heavy reduction of removal.

 

[Matias]

I'm in a similar boat with a 37" DBH oak

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I removed this bald cypress last November. I found yesterday that the log has started sprouting out, going on 9 months since it's removal.

I just realized that you're talking about Bald Cypress in Indiana! I would love to see a mature one still standing up there. I don't imagine they have craxy phenotypic differences to those in Florida, but they gotta be at least somewhat different right?

 

[Jehinten]

I'm in a similar boat with a 37" DBH oak

I just realized that you're talking about Bald Cypress in Indiana! I would love to see a mature one still standing up there. I don't imagine they have craxy phenotypic differences to those in Florida, but they gotta be at least somewhat different right?

I'm not sure how they look in Florida, but here's an example of a typical bald cypress around here in SW Indiana.

 

[oceans]

I'm not sure how they look in Florida, but here's an example of a typical bald cypress around here in SW Indiana.

Such lovely trees. Similar here for sure.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The state/Minnesota pair of record bald cypress grow about a mile north of me

 

[Matias]

I absolutely adore bald cypress, but where I grew up, on the Loxahatchee, they put on a lot more girth, and typically have a very strong taper. You guy's have also likely never seen one develop "knees", as that is an adaptation they have for dealing with being partially submerged for months at a time. I'll look for some good pictures.

 

[Evo]

I absolutely adore bald cypress, but where I grew up, on the Loxahatchee, they put on a lot more girth, and typically have a very strong taper. You guy's have also likely never seen one develop "knees", as that is an adaptation they have for dealing with being partially submerged for months at a time. I'll look for some good pictures.

We have some in Seattle, planted on the margin of Lake Washington part of the arboretum. My 8 year old asked what the hell was wrong when I couldn’t stop ‘squeeing’ at the knee’s.. then she spotted the beavers and it was her turn to start ‘squeeing’