this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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[–] Lon3star@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Or a mushroom cloud

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Would that be caused by a fire? Do you know of there were forest fires in the area ~20 years ago?

Maybe not, considering there's a similar discoloring along the outside, but I'm hoping an arborist will chime in.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To me it looks like a tree fork. A cross section somewhere above the B and below the AW in the picture below. And I think the darker area in the middle is the heartwood of the main trunk.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

When the tree wasn't good enough.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

I was wondering about that myself.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] SatoruToru@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Nuclear explosion

[–] boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

That looks like my cats backside