Incipient Decay?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I'm going to breenge in to this debate a bit late. According to the RFS Norway Spruce "Timber is pale cream; often called ‘whitewood’ with no colour difference between heartwood and sapwood, and only a subtle difference between the pale spring wood and darker summer wood in each annual ring."

 

The discolouration in the pictures must have additional explanations. The wide variation in ring widths suggests a chequered history for this particular tree. possibly having suffered and recovered from significant crown damage and/or partial windthrow (with root crown damage) a few years back. Can the OP confirm whether the rest of the tree was normal, i.e. excurrent single leader no big past breakages?

 

Just another way of saying that there has been dysfunction in columns and hence the colourations:thumbup1:

[Dorset Treeman]

I'm going to breenge in to this debate a bit late. According to the RFS Norway Spruce "Timber is pale cream; often called ‘whitewood’ with no colour difference between heartwood and sapwood, and only a subtle difference between the pale spring wood and darker summer wood in each annual ring."

 

 

 

The discolouration in the pictures must have additional explanations. The wide variation in ring widths suggests a chequered history for this particular tree. possibly having suffered and recovered from significant crown damage and/or partial windthrow (with root crown damage) a few years back. Can the OP confirm whether the rest of the tree was normal, i.e. excurrent single leader no big past breakages?

 

Tree was indeed normal, wind blow aside.

[Paul Cleaver]

Tree was indeed normal, wind blow

aside.

 

did you cut the tree higher up the trunk? if you did was there any variation in the pattern. If fungal I would think its would taper off

[Dorset Treeman]

did you cut the tree higher up the trunk? if you did was there any variation in the pattern. If fungal I would think its would taper off

 

 

Cut out a 2.4m log and no sign of this there, just where it was cut off the stump.

[daltontrees]

Cut out a 2.4m log and no sign of this there, just where it was cut off the stump.

 

I'm perplexed, I have cut down loads of big Norways and not seen anything quite as clear as this inside. Is til say the p[attern suggets major trauma. So does the tree blowing over.

 

I hope you made a couple of table tops out of discs. I'd have one for sure.