Sean Freeman

I'm interested nay fascinated in both, how many E. tereticornus have you seen grafting like this? For me the numbers are very very low 2% maybe.

The Nerang river tree seems to be exhibiting a degree of grafting and meristematic cell production beyond anything I've seen on any other tree....or at least without an explaination that I could be comfortable with. Is it just genetics, as Shigo wrote so clearly and emphatically in NTB when comparing resistant individual trees in forest situations. Or is it the result of and external factor....virus bacterium or something else? Until I can dissect one of the protrubences and assess if its origin is in the centre (or there abouts) or more peripherally I'll just be guessing.....what I was hoping clearly forelornly, was that others may have encountered similar oddities and had some musings of their own to share.

My pics don't really do justice to the amount of serious limb grafting going on in this tree, and none of the other trees same species along theis stretch of the river have any grafting at all...let alone the strange scrotum like growths below the limbs!!!!

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Sean

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran