Heartwood

When trees sustain an injury, they are unable to repair or heal the injury. Instead they grow new tissue around the wound site and isolate it. This looks like an oak tree, maybe 80 or so years old. I took this at C&N Sawmill in Marshall.

Heartwood

Posted in Woodworks and tagged with , , . RSS 2.0 feed.

2 Responses to Heartwood

  1. Andy says:

    Great description | great photo

  2. aaronmaret says:

    Thanks. It wasn’t very long ago that I learned that about trees. It was really surprising.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>