I’m still thinking about heartwood. How it is dead, fully dead, even though it is by definition the core of a living tree, the deepest, darkest center part, potentially quite wide and strong. Around it is a lighter wood called sapwood, and beyond that, the vascular cambium, the tree’s lung, in a sense.
Last weekend, we learned some basic tree anatomy an…
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