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!!!!