Just a tree.

I’ve not been working on my actual posted wips but…

KPDH AU! Bobby is Gwi-ma and none of the girls are human. There will be more lore

the Saja boys are still there tho and it’s 10x funnier

it’s gonna be a crackfic

I mean.

Um.

Hmmmmmmmmnn

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Sorbus acuparia.

Say it with me, now:

They are the same. Fucking. Tree.

I chose this for today's fun fact because I was reminded of a story from when we were cutting council trees.

So, we were cutting the epicormic off some lime trees and bringing them back to the boundary of the houses on a council job, and at one stage a woman from a few houses down from the tree we were working on came out and called us over

She had a rowan tree out in front of her house, and it had some epicormac coming up from the base, which i guess looked like it may have been sprouting out of the ground. Fair play to the woman, and credit to her, she was worried about the health of the tree. The conversation went a little something like this"

Woman: there's another tree growing out of my tree! Is that going to kill the big one?

Workmate: no, that's actually part of the same tree. It's reactive growth. It means the tree is under stress. It's probably because of the roadworks that are happening around here damaging the roots

Woman: no, they're different trees! Look, this one has different leaves to that one!

Workmate: yeah, because that’s new growth. If you look at the tips of the branches on the main tree you can see that the leaves are the same on both. The new growth looks different to the old growth

Woman: no! They're different! That one's a rowan, and that one is a mountain ash!

Workmate: those are the same tree

Woman (smugly, into the face of a professional tree surgeon): well, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Woman (chuckling to her husband, who just came out of the house): he's trying to tell me that these are different trees

She was so fucking smug about it. Like, lady, you don't know more than us because you spent three minutes on Google. This is our job. We know which trees are which... sometimes

So there you go! Two fun facts and a story. Don't I just spoil youse?

What song did you last listen to/are currently listening to

I'll go first

Capricorn -Troy Doherty

Last thing I listened to was co2 ep27 of stinky dragon ( which is a dnd podcast)

@corvusfrugilegus-rook @lys1th3a @tree-offical @towel-offical

Song 2 (2012 remaster) - Blur

Also Tree has a boyfriend, Tree was the one who had the idea for the Big Officalverse President Election, my also from the officalverse thought i was dead but i was actually on vacation for 2 weeks, and i guess thats kinda it.

Idk if that assigns as lore tho

The ash tree, fraxinus excelsior, is being wiped out by a disease called ash dieback. It's an airborne fungal infection that kills the tree off from the outside in.

It was spreading across mainland Europe back in 2011, when coilte, the irish semi-state body dedicated to "forestry" sent ash saplings to the Netherlands because their nurseries were overstocked with sitka spruce, a non-native cash crop they've been destroying our landscape with

Well, ash dieback was first detected in Ireland in 2012, when we got those saplings back, and still hasn't been detected in England, which you'd expect from a disease like that if it was coming from Europe.

But I'm sure that's just a coincidence and coilte would never bring something that damaging into the country, destroying the population of a hugely culturally significant tree for a tiny amount of profit

Edit: check this video out for more info

https://youtu.be/vCXPZNMDbDw

A really important thing that this system overlooks is the cambium layer. A little sliver between the tree's bark and wood that basically acts like stem cells, and multiplies in either directions, creating more wood on one side and more bark on the other.

I'll talk more about this in another post, but I want to keep these as short as I can