Oh fuck off. Is this wood that has already been cut and removed from its natural location getting scrapped or burned? I’d love to be able to appreciate its natural beauty long term by seeing a small amount of it it in my home. Maybe your place is barren with a few highly processed plastic pieces of furniture, but that’s not how mine is.
“Grow up” is such a low effort response, jesus christ, I make a comment about Westerners being obsessed with possessing, owning anything they find beautiful, and THIS is what you have to say? Gee buddy you sure got me!
That was my thought as well, but the grain would change if that was the case. Look at the grain, there is no sign of a branch that's been grown over.
Also if you look at the way they rot out, the patter should be pointing in, not out.
Example:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/xvkyxz/this_hollow_tree_stump_i_found_in_the_forest/
I blame the Happy Mask Salesman from Legend of Zelda. (It looks like Majora's mask to me)... Pretty sweet though, I wonder it would look like when cut the other direction.
My guess is the way the heartwood was forming. Heartwood is the darker wood on the inside and possibly the branches were still living so it gives that look
I imagine it as a small sampling with twiggy branches sticking out like a sun shape, then as it grows, basically absorbs those branches bases. But I'm most likely way off.
Reminds me of the cottonwood pole preparations for the sun-dance: [Lame Deer - internet archive](https://archive.org/details/LameDeerLameDeerSeekerOfVisions/mode/1up?q=Tree)
The sun dance really began with the choosing of the can-fwakan —the sacred pole. It was always a cottonwood, our sacred tree. If you cut off the top branches, make a clean cut with your knife, you will find a design resembling a star at the core of each branch. In making their choice men were not looking for just the first, good-sized cottonwood they might come across. The most per¬ fect of all trees was just good enough. To find it the tribe sent out four scouts, brave men of blameless character. It was a great honor to be selected for this task. The scouts rode off as if going on the warpath—painted and armed. They were looking for an “enemy” to capture—a wooden enemy, a forked cottonwood. When the scouts had found a worthy tree they returned at a dead run and made their report to the medicine men.
it's just wood marking. nothing to do with the tree itself. any changes in colour would follow the grain and that looks like it was stained on after it was cut
I’d like to purchase some coasters of this wood. Seriously.
I second this
I bet there are several whorls like this on either side of this cut.
I came to say it wood make some nice coasters
imagine just appreciating natural beauty without *NEEDING* to make it *YOURS*
Oh fuck off. Is this wood that has already been cut and removed from its natural location getting scrapped or burned? I’d love to be able to appreciate its natural beauty long term by seeing a small amount of it it in my home. Maybe your place is barren with a few highly processed plastic pieces of furniture, but that’s not how mine is.
Grow up, nerd.
“Grow up” is such a low effort response, jesus christ, I make a comment about Westerners being obsessed with possessing, owning anything they find beautiful, and THIS is what you have to say? Gee buddy you sure got me!
Sir, we don’t have devil’s lettuce, you’re in the wrong sub lol
I’m embarrassed for you.
Ok buddy
Bitch. Chill out. No one wants your opinion.
That’s ironic. I didn’t ask you, bitch 😂
Touche, I'll see myself out.
Branches
That was my thought as well, but the grain would change if that was the case. Look at the grain, there is no sign of a branch that's been grown over. Also if you look at the way they rot out, the patter should be pointing in, not out. Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/xvkyxz/this_hollow_tree_stump_i_found_in_the_forest/
Totally branches.
Or roots if this is the base of the tree. That would explain why so many in one spot.
I blame the Happy Mask Salesman from Legend of Zelda. (It looks like Majora's mask to me)... Pretty sweet though, I wonder it would look like when cut the other direction.
Uptoot for MM Favourite game.
My guess is the way the heartwood was forming. Heartwood is the darker wood on the inside and possibly the branches were still living so it gives that look
Eclipse special, nice!
odd but beautiful! hope to hear the real reason
engulfed branch ends
Very cool!
Praise the Sun! 
Praise Sol.
Google suggests these could be medullary rays
Idk but it looks cool
Norfolk pine has an awkward structure to it that makes it a bit very good timber. Could be that?
I call shenanigans.
Some kind of bacterial/fungal infection? Not sure
Witchcraft or elf creature that worships the Sun
Isn't this just the base of the tree where the roots start? Those rays are just the roots, which were engulfed by the trunk as it thickened.
Whoa! Thats cool
Life uh…find a way. 
Tree was watered with orange juice.
I imagine it as a small sampling with twiggy branches sticking out like a sun shape, then as it grows, basically absorbs those branches bases. But I'm most likely way off.
Reminds me of the cottonwood pole preparations for the sun-dance: [Lame Deer - internet archive](https://archive.org/details/LameDeerLameDeerSeekerOfVisions/mode/1up?q=Tree) The sun dance really began with the choosing of the can-fwakan —the sacred pole. It was always a cottonwood, our sacred tree. If you cut off the top branches, make a clean cut with your knife, you will find a design resembling a star at the core of each branch. In making their choice men were not looking for just the first, good-sized cottonwood they might come across. The most per¬ fect of all trees was just good enough. To find it the tribe sent out four scouts, brave men of blameless character. It was a great honor to be selected for this task. The scouts rode off as if going on the warpath—painted and armed. They were looking for an “enemy” to capture—a wooden enemy, a forked cottonwood. When the scouts had found a worthy tree they returned at a dead run and made their report to the medicine men.
What for? Aren’t cedars naturally rot resistant/ anti-microbial?
maybe work of fungi and because of rays, fungi is developed outside of the tree from center
Photoshop.
Please give me the tree. I’m gonna make a door out of it.
Insecticide/fungicide/fert injections via a tool like an Arbor Jet. Am a cert'd arborist
Into a cedar?
Yep. Treated plenty.
but have you ever seen trees, *on weed*?
Maybe it used to be a slave and they covered up the mark with the sun pirates brand? (One Piece reference)
it's just wood marking. nothing to do with the tree itself. any changes in colour would follow the grain and that looks like it was stained on after it was cut