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The first picture in post #16 is looking down to the water in Budd Inlet, the part of the Puget Sound that comes into downtown and Port of Olympia. This is an old house, relatively speaking for the area. Olympia was founded in about 1850. A storm front was moving in off the coast with some...

Guy M. thought from the what I put up that it was horse hoof fungus (fomes fomentarius). I picked up a check from the neighbor's house this morning and took some more pictures. Tree looks like it have been let go with some large suckers, but overall looked okay. If they call me, I am...

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Trunk is oddly represented in those pictures. Rain tracked down the trunk in a funny way where parts were wet, and parts dry. No characteristic lightning strike wound. We rarely get lightning here, for some reason. Much taller trees in the general area. Did see a lightning struck old doug-fir...

I've seen big fir with swollen butts before, but not like this, with the bulge so very concentrated in location.

Its a museum, and maybe a historic tree. About 30' tall, and reasonably aesthetically pleasing. Better than the topped english hollies, and topped/ regrown Norway spruce. In most cases Brent, I'd agree with you, however, with it as a possible "historic" tree, people will want to know if...

Do you mean that the irregular trunk shape is due to increased reaction wood production of some sort? Or ?

I saw conks on a historic pear tree at an Olympia historic house/ museum. Worked for the neighbor, who said her pear was from the original orchard. Its about the same size as the affected one at the museum. My first explanation from visual inspection was that this is a grafted tree with the...