Carving chestnut reveals vertical lines vanish beyond each growth ring

Evidence

Since chestnut has ring-porous wood, the ring-porous section of an annual growth ring can look like ray lines, but once beyond this section all vertical lines disappear (S.11). Continue carving, and if you hit a depth without vertical lines, you have a chestnut tree. — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics, 153

Categorization

• XREF: Chestnut stump identification and its fungal blight history tie to the disturbance and no-pristine-forest theme. — connects to: Charcoal mat fungus can be mistaken for real fire charcoal — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to…, 129

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