Big guy looks funny without his clothes on.
rofl yeah he does, but in the best way ;D
Gotta ask- is that large shari & cavern at the base pretty much the entirety of decay on that trunking? Also,
how did that shari get so big?? I've got a ~2" shari on the buttressing of a real large BC and it was callousing-over all summer, not enlarging - I think! At least the edges of the wound are swelling, I should probably go measure them to be sure they're not separating on me, it blows my mind how a BC can get that degree of trunk die-back (I mean c'mon there's a branch right at the top of the wounding, not like it's a blank area of the tree lol, never understood how they die-back so bad
and why I seldom/never see such die-back when exploring natural/in-ground BC groves..)
Awesome BC in any case, thing looks almost 1' across at the substrate level! Hoping to have a comparably sized trunk soon myself, this species is just tops!!!!
), though I've gotta say I'm completely confused by your sentiment there, does anyone else see it that way, that Asia trends towards bigger specimen than the west does?
