I was in my woods, in an area I had not ventured into in decades, cutting up a tree that had leaned over many years ago. I cut two of the now-horizontal limbs--you can see the stubs, when I noticed this "impossible" limb. Any ideas on how this limb formed? Hint: It's not photoshop. Here it is from another angle:
Limbs grew into then around each other. I saw something like that on a hemlock i was recently trimming.
Very interesting! Conjoined trunks Guess we don’t have to ask if you separated them. Awesome pic. Nice job capturing that for us all to see. I’ve never seen anything like it before!
This article was in a local paper here last July. Another tree freak of nature. Click on the link Door Tree vandalized.
I won't be cutting it, although I will probably keep harvesting wood from that tree. It is half of a double-tree--that is, two trees that grew up from one that was cutoff very early in life. The half I am cutting on fell over, evidently years ago. This part of my woods is so thick, I had bush-hogged within 30 feet of it every year since the 1990's but had never seen the tree.
Wonder how much stress is on either of those limbs behind the joining. Might be a surprise to say the least when cut apart. If you do it, be careful and aware of your situation when cutting.
Toward the bottom it looks to have been grafted. I've seen trees that were and they grew very similar to that one.
Very interesting tree. We have two sugar maples out back here that all I can tell is that one grew into another.
Maybe consider removing the boxed section intact and remove the bark and let it dry. You can always cut it down the road but it just might have a purpose you haven't thought of.
