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Chaga? (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago by UFODivebomb@programming.dev to c/mushrooms@lemmy.world
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Never seen one that large if so

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 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

[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 10 points 5 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

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

Looks like burl wood

[-] JoMomma@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Chonka

[-] DoctorSpocktopus@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Doesn’t chaga only grow on dead birch trees?

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