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Never seen one that large if so

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I'm not an *ologist of any kind, but it looks like a tree knot to me

https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=61663

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's a burl (basically tree cancer), and any woodworker would give you their right arm for one that size.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It’s not really cancer tho. Some trees reproduce through burls, such as sequoias (redwood). The burls contain seedlings that sprout when the tree falls or spread with flooding or forest fires. photo of a redwood with a burl taken in Muir Woods, Mill Valley, CA

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Looks like burl wood

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Doesn’t chaga only grow on dead birch trees?