Firefighters were called early Tuesday to the tree fire in the rural Ridgeville Township, located about 45 miles southwest of Toledo. The Ridgeville Township Volunteer Fire Department shared photos of the tree, which showed glowing, red-hot flames spiraling up the trunk — while the outer branches appeared green and seemingly unaffected.
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The Natural. Wonderbat, walking stick, if any wood is salvageable, make something.
ReplyDeleteDepending on how bad the damage is to the cambium layer, that tree might be just fine. The inner heartwood is dead, in trees. It's just an added bit of structure, but it doesn't actually grow. Trees can survive just fine with only the sapwood, under the right conditions (assuming nothing heavy is leaning on the tree, etc, etc)
ReplyDeleteThey mention that lightning is (momentarily) hotter (at ~50,000°F) than the surface of the sun (~10,000°F) but they didn't mention that the surface is the coolest part. The atmosphere above it can be as high as 900,000°F and the core areas are estimated at in the tens of millions of degrees. I was curious, so I did some searching, and thought it was fascinating.