The hell is this?

[rwc101]

Anyone know what the hell went on with this tree?

 

[Irrelevant]

Long-term mistletoe?

 

[Elkmagnet]

Testicular injury?

 

[WyoDoug]

Looks like a lotta firewood right now. Never seen a tree grow like that myself LOL.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Testicular injury?

It's a cactus tree

 

[noharleyyet]

That's the drunk uncle branch....

 

[Gerald Martin]

It’s da tirty point tree.

 

[88man]

had spruce witches broom and died

 

[Big Slick]

Non typical

 

[Ben Sellers]

had spruce witches broom and died

Looks like a real and accurate answer. I had to google spruce witches broom. I learned something today-thanks!

 

[WyoDoug]

To be serious and any biologist on here might tell you that sometimes when trees are partially uprooted for various reasons, any part of tree limbs touching soil has the potential to grow new roots especially at the union of the branch. On the serious side, I think this tree was partially uprooted and the mangled mess you are looking at is probably old root structure. I have been growing and translating lilacs this way, cutting branches and getting them to root and then planting them elsewhere.

 

[kwyeewyk]

Witches broom is the symptom, I would guess the cause is mistletoe. Also not spruce.

 

[kwyeewyk]

To be serious and any biologist on here might tell you that sometimes when trees are partially uprooted for various reasons, any part of tree limbs touching soil has the potential to grow new roots especially at the union of the branch. On the serious side, I think this tree was partially uprooted and the mangled mess you are looking at is probably old root structure. I have been growing and translating lilacs this way, cutting branches and getting them to root and then planting them elsewhere.

Disagree on this one

 

[Dave N]

Too many steroids from a tree farm.

 

[maxracx]

Where I come from they call that a garbunkel!!!

 

[Doublecluck]

Drank the water from Butte.

 

[wytex]

To be serious and any biologist on here might tell you that sometimes when trees are partially uprooted for various reasons, any part of tree limbs touching soil has the potential to grow new roots especially at the union of the branch. On the serious side, I think this tree was partially uprooted and the mangled mess you are looking at is probably old root structure. I have been growing and translating lilacs this way, cutting branches and getting them to root and then planting them elsewhere.

Don't think so.
Lots of different things can cause witch's broom, mistletoe is one.

 

[WyoDoug]

Don't think so.
Lots of different things can cause witch's broom, mistletoe is one.

I am not a biologist so I got new clue what yer talking about. I used a method called layering to get new growth to produce roots and then cut and transplant it. I got it to work on willow, cottonwood, roses, and lilacs so far. Not an expert on it but got it to work on some trees. I seen cottonwoods by the South Platte where we had our farm that pretty much laid on it's side with roots sticking out and new trunk lifted the roots up in the air after a couple years.

 

[TheJason]

Apples to oranges.

 

[rwc101]

It has a smaller growth all the way at the top you can sort of see in the second picture. Not sure those would be roots.