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Out of curiosity, what actually causes that ripple?


Looks like bulge wood which occurs after fibre buckling. Normally caused by wind swaying the tree damaging the outer wood resulting in adaptive growth looking like a ring bulge around the stem.
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Looks like bulge wood which occurs after fibre buckling. Normally caused by wind swaying the tree damaging the outer wood resulting in adaptive growth looking like a ring bulge around the stem.

How come its only happened to the one though?
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i think it is believed to be a bit genetic as some trees are very susceptible to it whereas some are just normal grained.

 

the growth of the tree can be a factor too like a huge crown on a small stem is likely to result in ripple on most species but this is not the case for this specimen.

 

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5 hours ago, Ratman said:


How come its only happened to the one though?

Good point there, as there is 180 trees in this stand and approx 50% are beech with some trees being around 5ft dbh so not Micky mouse trees at all, this is the only one in this stand but there is another one with some rippling but its high up the trunk and no where near as pronounced as the ripple in this one,

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On 17/03/2019 at 20:14, spuddog0507 said:

Good point there, as there is 180 trees in this stand and approx 50% are beech with some trees being around 5ft dbh so not Micky mouse trees at all, this is the only one in this stand but there is another one with some rippling but its high up the trunk and no where near as pronounced as the ripple in this one,

I don't think this is proper "ripple" as TTownsend said above, its most probably reaction wood, grown due to wind damage. Maybe this tree grew to fast, searching for light, so when the wind came it was to thin.

 

 All the ripped trees I've encountered show no external sign of ripple. You have to cut a chunk of bark off to check for ripple and its much smaller, tighter ripple, also known as "fiddle back".

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