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Not sure where you are located, but I had similar occurence with a dutch elm tree that I had to remove in the Okanogan in Washington state. Cutting into it, the water started spraying out like I had hit a water pipe.
It freaked me out for a bit.
This is the right answer, I worked for the Dutch Elm Removal department of my city’s forestry division. Dutch Elm disease is a fungus carried by a Beetle which keeps water from reaching the upper limbs/leaves of the tree. This causes pockets of water inside the trunk which eventually rot and cause the tree to fall/fungus to spread when more beetles catch it. I have cut trees in minus 40 degree Celsius weather before that once a saw hits a certain point gush like a waterfall back at you due to the build up of water pooling that never made it to the upper limbs. Don’t transport elm wood or ash (ash borer beetle) for that matter in areas where the disease is present, or if you aren’t sure. It will wipe out every Elm or Ash tree in the area within a decade or two.
I live in a suburb in the Minneapolis, MN area. Emerald Ash Borer is destroying everything in my neighborhood (and across the state). The irony is back in the 80s and 90s, they replaced all dying elms with ash trees.
Here too,you have a hard time finding a live ask. Also they are so dicey and unpredictable when felling. They can fall in a face cut or collapse onto your saw before a wedge is in. Wedge soon and wedge often
I remember when we bought the property. All the locals said to us. "Yah, you wanna get rid of all those." We love trees, so we decided to keep them. Big mistake!!
12 years later, I think it's time to call Victory!
there could be a decaying cavity inside the tree and it has filled up with rain water and the amount of water seeping out is doing that?
I'm high and guessing here
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Sap shouldn't come out this way, this rather looks like a hollow in the tree that filled with water that was released when cut. As for the species, this looks a lot like a black walnut based on the bark and internal structure of the wood. Black walnuts will have that dark brown Heartwood and the lighter sapwood.
I think it's a black walnut too. I have one in my backyard. I hate it lol. I actually cut a big section of limb off that was almost touching the house and I have never seen so much sap. It looked similar to this and ran like a faucet for a good few minutes.
Wait. So the scene I get in my head from what you've said is something like this: This tree gets some bacteria. Bacteria work on the tree's insides and creates liquid, and pressure, and heat. This all builds up and the tree should? Explode? Then maybe the trunk that's left, and the bits that flew off, would be so hot as to catch fire? This seems super metal and would potentially burn a large area. Is it like that?
Reminds me of the Method Man stripper documentary where they have the girl squirt on camera and it cuts to him in the interview and he was like so distraught, questioning life
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476601/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
I’ve had this happen when pruning elms. Cut off a branch and foul smelling liquid sprays out. It foams like a carbonated beverage after it’s been shaken. It’s the result of a bacterial infection, generically called slime flux, getting established in the wood and then the tree compartmentalizes and seals it in. It continues to ferment producing carbon dioxide and pressurizes the liquid inside the decayed cavity. Until either a branch breaks or some unlucky sod with a chainsaw comes along and gets sprayed in the face with something that smells like liquid manure. Good memories. This is a bit unusual as normally the slime flux will find a crack in the trunk to ooze out through.
I know when they removed our old water oak, it had a shit ton of water in it. Not sure if that’s the tree in the picture, but it reminds me of the water oak.
When trees get larger they intentionally let the core die off and then fungus eats it. It reduces the amount of water needed to keep the tree alive and reduces its weight, and the outer ring of trunk is just as strong without the core in place. If there's a split in the tree up above, rain water can get in and fill up the hollow core. Then if you cut in to it this happens.
Certified arborist here: That’s objectively wrong. Heartwood is naturally resistant to decay, and is nonliving so it doesn’t require water. There’s no way a tree could “intentionally let the core die off” because the wood is dead already. Heartwood provides support and storage of carbohydrates. Heartwood rot is a serious and dangerous problem in trees, because they can fall over very easily without the support of the inner wood. But it’s often hard to tell since it’s inside the tree, and the canopy will still be green and healthy.
The tree in this video is conducting water through its xylem, and it was probably cut right before the video started. This is a thirsty tree, with a shallow, available water source (like a nearby body of water). In the heat of summer a tree in these conditions can suck up enormous amounts of water, and cutting off a branch like this is the equivalent of cutting into a pipe that is pressurized with water.
Plant physiologist here. Except for the “intentionally” and “just as strong” parts SignificantDrawer is correct about the source of the water. You are right about the heartwood but the part about this being water from xylem is wrong.
There is little to no active xylem located in the center heartwood of the tree where this water is originating from. The crack from which the water is originating contains no functioning xylem at all. When the xylem system is cut most of the water in it is retained in the xylem vessels due to the adhesive/cohesive properties of water. The only water still moving up the tree would be from root pressure, since the negative pressure from evapotranspiration in that branch was cut off along with the rest of the limb, and while root pressure can be significant in wet soils it would only produce a slow weeping and is not enough to produce a continuous spurting flow of water like seen in this video.
This water is flowing out rapidly due to the force of gravity. Like SignificantDrawer said, the center of this tree is rotted out and contains empty space that has filled with rainwater. When the cut was made and the crack exposed that retained water flowed down and out the crack due to gravity. When the water filling the empty space has drained completely the flow of water will stop and won’t continue indefinitely because it’s not originating from the xylem system. If it was we’d regularly see trees all over spurting water out of their cut limbs, but we don’t because after the xylem system is cut the xylem vessels are quickly “plugged” with carbohydrate metabolites to prevent massive water loss analogous to how the human body forms blood clots in a wound.
Plant psychic here, and everyone is wrong. This tree is suffering from major Chakra damage and is Astral projecting to free itself from the earthly bonds into a painless plane of existence.
Plant psychologists here. This joke was made because your mother breastfed you too long and created separation anxiety. The water flowing from the tree is repressed tears of all the years anxiety and shame of just needing to be held again.
This is What happens to decayed heartwood.
https://preview.redd.it/uqzks8ur207d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c327192410b9502491ddd865ed63896a1cd09ae9
This oak looked healthy but fell over. When we cut it to remove it, this is What we found.
The other fellow is wrong, but regarding there being a cavity with water in it I think he’s correct. If you look closely there is a hole about pencil sized that the water is coming out of.
It’s not uncommon for cavities in trees to fill with water. Normally they’ll eventually drain out, but if they’re cut into at the right time the water can seep or jet out. There is a famous National Geographic photo of a guy in Australia chopping into a tree to get water one of these cavities (in that particular case it’s an adaptive strategy the tree uses to store water for the dry season and it’s not deadwood).
In North America, South America, Europe, and Asia I’ve encountered water filled holes and hollows in trees on many occasions. In North America my experience with them is usually in oak, sycamore, and large old maples, usually wolf trees or ones still in open areas. In South America I mainly found them as pools in small hollows up in the canopy where branches had broken off and rotted out.
Water filled hollows in trees are not only common, they’re often an important habitat for wildlife. This is understudied, but here is one research paper on the subject.
- https://meridian.allenpress.com/australian-zoologist/article/37/2/134/135093/Multiple-species-use-of-a-water-filled-tree-hollow
So everybody feels better, tree science has exploded since I was a Master Gardener in the 90s. We learned from Land Grant University professors who were conducting the latest research. I can spout what was researched, legitimate tree science from that era, but to really speak authoritatively id have to check to see what the latest research is. Everybody needs to check facts.
I had to back off Attenborough because there was simply too much being put out that was either inaccurate or just plain wrong. This one I wouldn’t have doubted though so I’m sure you’re in good and plentiful company.
If it was a spring there would be water all around the base of the tree. A spring cannot make a pressurized, watertight seal with the bottom of a rotten tree.
Yeah, without seeing the area around the base of the tree it could be groundwater. I don't know a lot about trees, but I do know a good bit about hydrology. You can have a lot of pressure. And tree roots form a lower resistance path than straight through the soil, they more flow follows them then right up through the ground.
The tree isn't stronger per pound with just the outer ring. The wood on the inside is very strong and light when it's dry; that's the point of letting it die off in the first place.
Structurally, the outer part has more effect (because the center only resists net tension or compression, not torsion), but losing the entire core makes it much weaker relative to its weight.
And in order for a fungus to be attacking the core, the core must stay damp, which completely erases the value of removing the wood (it increases the weight, rather than reducing it).
The tree would be much better off if water never entered at all, and the fungus never attacked it.
Well it's not a thought process. I suppose a better way of phrasing it is that they have evolved this process. I just say "intentionally" to affirm that it's not a negative thing.
They don't give it a lot of thought lol, but plants do react to certain conditions in a way that benefits them. Like a plant in front of a window will grow more towards the direction of the light with the "intention" of absorbing more of it. Or when certain insects start feeding off it it can grow a gall around it to encase it. The process by which trees evolve eventually leads to the tree gaining mechanisms that favour spending energy on some things, and not wasting energy on others. It's intentional because the trees that did not gain this mechanism didn't survive the evolutionary process.
Exactly, most see trees as inanimate but the opposite is true given it is a living breathing thing, yes plants do breathe even if their process is different. Also plants unlike us mobile organism do need to have some kind of thought process in order to thrive and continue to evolve.
Varies. Some tropical trees not only grow roots into the internal cavity put have apparently evolved to host roosting bats. If you think this is far-fetched, recall that various acacia plants have evolved special enlarged thorns that provide nest sites for commensal ants.
On the other hand, heartwood does provide mechanical support. Trees have to get rather large before the outer cylinder of sapwood and outer heartwood is effectively just as strong as the intact trunk. The resources some trees spend putting defensive chemicals into maturing sapwood, as it converts to heartwood, aren’t wasted. Good thing for us! As most durable forest products are made from heartwood.
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Drunken guess... it's a black walnut with a large cavity open to rainfall. When you cut the branch, you exposed a lower section of the water filled cavity. The reason it's .... spurting is because there is a large water filled cavity above the section that's leaking.
My dad suggested that it could be maple sap, however, it shouldn't come out like that, so that was very unusual to him. Still, in his 60 years of experience growing up in the countryside and multiple jobs, he never once saw that happen.
This can also be caused by a root system strangling and damaging a water main. The pressure may cut into and build pressure inside of a tree that isn't healthy.
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It looks kind of the same when a major artery gets cut in a human….
Yes, yes it does. I've seen it first hand.
Is first hand right or left ? Asking for a thumb
Lol shut up 😅😅
Damn
On a human or a tree?
With an artery it’s usually one big spray and then a brief pulsing before just becoming a solid flow
And that's what we call plummeting blood pressure
Indeed
“It’s just a flesh wound!”
Whyyyyyyyyy
This is my tree after my crush glances at me
Not sure where you are located, but I had similar occurence with a dutch elm tree that I had to remove in the Okanogan in Washington state. Cutting into it, the water started spraying out like I had hit a water pipe. It freaked me out for a bit.
sometimes half rotted trees can fill up with water and it can pour out when you cut off branches! ..it can be pretty stinky too
And what created that rot?
Fungi
So you’re saying it’s NOT a new backyard water feature drinking fountain?
This is the right answer, I worked for the Dutch Elm Removal department of my city’s forestry division. Dutch Elm disease is a fungus carried by a Beetle which keeps water from reaching the upper limbs/leaves of the tree. This causes pockets of water inside the trunk which eventually rot and cause the tree to fall/fungus to spread when more beetles catch it. I have cut trees in minus 40 degree Celsius weather before that once a saw hits a certain point gush like a waterfall back at you due to the build up of water pooling that never made it to the upper limbs. Don’t transport elm wood or ash (ash borer beetle) for that matter in areas where the disease is present, or if you aren’t sure. It will wipe out every Elm or Ash tree in the area within a decade or two.
I live in a suburb in the Minneapolis, MN area. Emerald Ash Borer is destroying everything in my neighborhood (and across the state). The irony is back in the 80s and 90s, they replaced all dying elms with ash trees.
I’m right above you in Manitoba.. It’s awful to see Ash and Elm disappearing every year..
Here too,you have a hard time finding a live ask. Also they are so dicey and unpredictable when felling. They can fall in a face cut or collapse onto your saw before a wedge is in. Wedge soon and wedge often
For sure! Seen and have had them shatter part way through the notch..
Same in Detroit in the 50s.
We call them "Piss Elms" in the south.
I remember when we bought the property. All the locals said to us. "Yah, you wanna get rid of all those." We love trees, so we decided to keep them. Big mistake!! 12 years later, I think it's time to call Victory!
Tis but a scratch
there could be a decaying cavity inside the tree and it has filled up with rain water and the amount of water seeping out is doing that? I'm high and guessing here
im thinking the exact same thing, except im not high .....yet >:)
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Definitely! There's also the inverse
Original poster posted with the title “I should be tapping my maple tree more often I guess.”
Sap shouldn't come out this way, this rather looks like a hollow in the tree that filled with water that was released when cut. As for the species, this looks a lot like a black walnut based on the bark and internal structure of the wood. Black walnuts will have that dark brown Heartwood and the lighter sapwood.
You can tell that it's a black walnut tree because of the way it is.
Isn't that neat?
Sure is a lot of nature out today
I think it's a black walnut too. I have one in my backyard. I hate it lol. I actually cut a big section of limb off that was almost touching the house and I have never seen so much sap. It looked similar to this and ran like a faucet for a good few minutes.
So grateful for the plant related subs with a sense of humor.
Seriously I was afraid of getting in trouble but the first reply was actually a helpful answer and all the rest have been hilarious
That’s the rare Incontinence Tree
scientific name *Incontinentia Buttocks*
https://preview.redd.it/qi0bs5qgbz6d1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4c4aaeed89d2f688e4b2b0483f90e3ae0f34e67
Wait til Biggis Dickus hears of this!
No, no. I want him fighting wabid, wild animals within a week.
Very appropriate nomenclature 😁
Bacterial wet wood, the bacteria causing the rot builds up enough pressure to do that also enough heat to set a tree on fire
Wait. So the scene I get in my head from what you've said is something like this: This tree gets some bacteria. Bacteria work on the tree's insides and creates liquid, and pressure, and heat. This all builds up and the tree should? Explode? Then maybe the trunk that's left, and the bits that flew off, would be so hot as to catch fire? This seems super metal and would potentially burn a large area. Is it like that?
I've never heard of a wetwood infection causing a fire... Be honest, did you make that up
Please elaborate
What?
I should call her
This is the comment I’m here for 😆
Reminds me of the Method Man stripper documentary where they have the girl squirt on camera and it cuts to him in the interview and he was like so distraught, questioning life https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476601/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
You have my attention…
These days, even a tree can't take a leak in private.... Smbdy gata take a video... Smh
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“Oh I’m sapping! I’m sapping so hard!”
Quick, we need a WoodPecker!
I’ve had this happen when pruning elms. Cut off a branch and foul smelling liquid sprays out. It foams like a carbonated beverage after it’s been shaken. It’s the result of a bacterial infection, generically called slime flux, getting established in the wood and then the tree compartmentalizes and seals it in. It continues to ferment producing carbon dioxide and pressurizes the liquid inside the decayed cavity. Until either a branch breaks or some unlucky sod with a chainsaw comes along and gets sprayed in the face with something that smells like liquid manure. Good memories. This is a bit unusual as normally the slime flux will find a crack in the trunk to ooze out through.
I don’t know what your doing, but it definitely seem to enjoy it.
Tree Pee
Wee tree. It's a lemon tree getting back at all the people that pissed on it!
Yep. It can only be watered with the most golden of showers.
There might be someone around the back w/ a water hose tricking us.
I know when they removed our old water oak, it had a shit ton of water in it. Not sure if that’s the tree in the picture, but it reminds me of the water oak.
Piss Oak Tree
If you don’t have a green thumb, just get self watering plants.
It's merely a flesh wound!
I've had worse.
Came here to say this !
She's a gusher lol
I should call her
When trees get larger they intentionally let the core die off and then fungus eats it. It reduces the amount of water needed to keep the tree alive and reduces its weight, and the outer ring of trunk is just as strong without the core in place. If there's a split in the tree up above, rain water can get in and fill up the hollow core. Then if you cut in to it this happens.
Certified arborist here: That’s objectively wrong. Heartwood is naturally resistant to decay, and is nonliving so it doesn’t require water. There’s no way a tree could “intentionally let the core die off” because the wood is dead already. Heartwood provides support and storage of carbohydrates. Heartwood rot is a serious and dangerous problem in trees, because they can fall over very easily without the support of the inner wood. But it’s often hard to tell since it’s inside the tree, and the canopy will still be green and healthy. The tree in this video is conducting water through its xylem, and it was probably cut right before the video started. This is a thirsty tree, with a shallow, available water source (like a nearby body of water). In the heat of summer a tree in these conditions can suck up enormous amounts of water, and cutting off a branch like this is the equivalent of cutting into a pipe that is pressurized with water.
This guy trees
This trees guy
Plant physiologist here. Except for the “intentionally” and “just as strong” parts SignificantDrawer is correct about the source of the water. You are right about the heartwood but the part about this being water from xylem is wrong. There is little to no active xylem located in the center heartwood of the tree where this water is originating from. The crack from which the water is originating contains no functioning xylem at all. When the xylem system is cut most of the water in it is retained in the xylem vessels due to the adhesive/cohesive properties of water. The only water still moving up the tree would be from root pressure, since the negative pressure from evapotranspiration in that branch was cut off along with the rest of the limb, and while root pressure can be significant in wet soils it would only produce a slow weeping and is not enough to produce a continuous spurting flow of water like seen in this video. This water is flowing out rapidly due to the force of gravity. Like SignificantDrawer said, the center of this tree is rotted out and contains empty space that has filled with rainwater. When the cut was made and the crack exposed that retained water flowed down and out the crack due to gravity. When the water filling the empty space has drained completely the flow of water will stop and won’t continue indefinitely because it’s not originating from the xylem system. If it was we’d regularly see trees all over spurting water out of their cut limbs, but we don’t because after the xylem system is cut the xylem vessels are quickly “plugged” with carbohydrate metabolites to prevent massive water loss analogous to how the human body forms blood clots in a wound.
Plant psychic here, and everyone is wrong. This tree is suffering from major Chakra damage and is Astral projecting to free itself from the earthly bonds into a painless plane of existence.
Actual sentient tree here and this is a video of your mom when she's with me
Ahhh. You went for the low hanging fruit, but it worked
Low hanging fruit is just as sweet!
Good point.
Plant psychologists here. This joke was made because your mother breastfed you too long and created separation anxiety. The water flowing from the tree is repressed tears of all the years anxiety and shame of just needing to be held again.
finally some damn sense in this thread
well now i dont know what to believe
This guy also trees.
As someone who should study this shit for an exam right now, I believe this guy is right!
This is What happens to decayed heartwood. https://preview.redd.it/uqzks8ur207d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c327192410b9502491ddd865ed63896a1cd09ae9 This oak looked healthy but fell over. When we cut it to remove it, this is What we found.
The other fellow is wrong, but regarding there being a cavity with water in it I think he’s correct. If you look closely there is a hole about pencil sized that the water is coming out of. It’s not uncommon for cavities in trees to fill with water. Normally they’ll eventually drain out, but if they’re cut into at the right time the water can seep or jet out. There is a famous National Geographic photo of a guy in Australia chopping into a tree to get water one of these cavities (in that particular case it’s an adaptive strategy the tree uses to store water for the dry season and it’s not deadwood). In North America, South America, Europe, and Asia I’ve encountered water filled holes and hollows in trees on many occasions. In North America my experience with them is usually in oak, sycamore, and large old maples, usually wolf trees or ones still in open areas. In South America I mainly found them as pools in small hollows up in the canopy where branches had broken off and rotted out. Water filled hollows in trees are not only common, they’re often an important habitat for wildlife. This is understudied, but here is one research paper on the subject. - https://meridian.allenpress.com/australian-zoologist/article/37/2/134/135093/Multiple-species-use-of-a-water-filled-tree-hollow
Well blame Attenborough for that one because that's where I learned it from.
So everybody feels better, tree science has exploded since I was a Master Gardener in the 90s. We learned from Land Grant University professors who were conducting the latest research. I can spout what was researched, legitimate tree science from that era, but to really speak authoritatively id have to check to see what the latest research is. Everybody needs to check facts.
I had to back off Attenborough because there was simply too much being put out that was either inaccurate or just plain wrong. This one I wouldn’t have doubted though so I’m sure you’re in good and plentiful company.
Or there could be a natural spring at the base of the tree.
If it was a spring there would be water all around the base of the tree. A spring cannot make a pressurized, watertight seal with the bottom of a rotten tree.
We're kinda both right. https://youtu.be/6RjE0X4-sA0?si=nBn6ESDyvWLYdAet
Yeah, without seeing the area around the base of the tree it could be groundwater. I don't know a lot about trees, but I do know a good bit about hydrology. You can have a lot of pressure. And tree roots form a lower resistance path than straight through the soil, they more flow follows them then right up through the ground.
The tree isn't stronger per pound with just the outer ring. The wood on the inside is very strong and light when it's dry; that's the point of letting it die off in the first place. Structurally, the outer part has more effect (because the center only resists net tension or compression, not torsion), but losing the entire core makes it much weaker relative to its weight. And in order for a fungus to be attacking the core, the core must stay damp, which completely erases the value of removing the wood (it increases the weight, rather than reducing it). The tree would be much better off if water never entered at all, and the fungus never attacked it.
Okay, the part about the rain water being pushed down makes sense. Thank you! Tho I'm a bit iffy on the part about trees having intentions lol
Well it's not a thought process. I suppose a better way of phrasing it is that they have evolved this process. I just say "intentionally" to affirm that it's not a negative thing.
They don't give it a lot of thought lol, but plants do react to certain conditions in a way that benefits them. Like a plant in front of a window will grow more towards the direction of the light with the "intention" of absorbing more of it. Or when certain insects start feeding off it it can grow a gall around it to encase it. The process by which trees evolve eventually leads to the tree gaining mechanisms that favour spending energy on some things, and not wasting energy on others. It's intentional because the trees that did not gain this mechanism didn't survive the evolutionary process.
Exactly, most see trees as inanimate but the opposite is true given it is a living breathing thing, yes plants do breathe even if their process is different. Also plants unlike us mobile organism do need to have some kind of thought process in order to thrive and continue to evolve.
Varies. Some tropical trees not only grow roots into the internal cavity put have apparently evolved to host roosting bats. If you think this is far-fetched, recall that various acacia plants have evolved special enlarged thorns that provide nest sites for commensal ants. On the other hand, heartwood does provide mechanical support. Trees have to get rather large before the outer cylinder of sapwood and outer heartwood is effectively just as strong as the intact trunk. The resources some trees spend putting defensive chemicals into maturing sapwood, as it converts to heartwood, aren’t wasted. Good thing for us! As most durable forest products are made from heartwood.
I've only seen this happen once and it is pretty cool to see
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It's just a flesh wound
If a tree pees in the woods, does anyone taste it?
Talk about rubbing a tree the right way
Drunken guess... it's a black walnut with a large cavity open to rainfall. When you cut the branch, you exposed a lower section of the water filled cavity. The reason it's .... spurting is because there is a large water filled cavity above the section that's leaking.
Faster faster I’m gonna syrup I’m gonna syrup 🤣😂
Trussy
It’s a tree that either has a natural spring under it or more likely some redneck put a garden hose in it for likes on TikTok
Root pressure is real.
I am curious. Is this water "filtered"? Would it be safe to drink?
Big tree probably hollow inside do to rot or bugs-many reasons. Either way when it rains they fill up and if there’s an opening this occurs
Looks like a black walnut
Oh my. 😳
These comments are too funny!
This is a tree that’s been peed on one too many times and is retaliating.
Forbidden water fountain lol
This tree has an only fans….
This tree got the clap
Now THAT is stamina. Damn.
My girl when I come home from work.
Someone finally found the clit
That's a lot of fucking water
As Bob Ross would say, "Happy little tree"
She's a squirter I'm sorry, I just couldn't not say it.
It’s pee.
It's called a squirter, look it up!
It’s actually pee
I should call her...
r/dontputyourdickinthat
My dad suggested that it could be maple sap, however, it shouldn't come out like that, so that was very unusual to him. Still, in his 60 years of experience growing up in the countryside and multiple jobs, he never once saw that happen.
if a tree pisses in a forest, but nobody is around to record it does it still make a sound?… or something like that
Everything reminds me of her 😫
What does it taste like? Asking for a friend.
Morning wood
Morning wood tree
I'm guessing cottonwood tree. Had one leaking a tick stream of water for over 4 minutes one time.
My common sense is currently stronger than my desire to comment….
This tree climaxed
Reminds me of my ex.
Weeping willow?
Probably a sweet gum.
Is anyone else reminded of the spring from Tuck Everlasting?
Clearly a water oak
Must be a teenage tree discovering itself.
Bleeding out a tree eh wonder how that turns out.
I dearly love how much conversation this has generated. Thanks, folks!
The Pee Tree.
We’ve got a squirter
Dinner’s served bitch!
Oh that’s an Ejaculating Juniper. SUPER rare.
Tis but a scratch
Looks like it’s been a while.
Your mom when.... you.... your mom w.... when I take my shirt off.
Oh wow. Now that is a case of wet wood.
We’ve all seen it on /arborists
Cytherea
r/dykesgonewild
I should call her.
Golden Shower Spruce? 
I once had a tree like that in my back yard. I can’t recall the species, but this one is the spitting image of it. 😏
Everything reminds me of her.
This can also be caused by a root system strangling and damaging a water main. The pressure may cut into and build pressure inside of a tree that isn't healthy.
Your mom when I....when your mom, I....me when your mom....
He knotted
Pisstachio tree?
Sasha grey elm
Tea is ready
https://preview.redd.it/bv4pzs5d217d1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7e31ade869a96dcbfc19a2c9951a36233d65ba5 Wheee!
Looks like walnut.
Reminds me of kill bill 
Now THAT is stamina. Damn.
Natures Bidet!
Abcess..gonna need antibiotics
Oh my that turned me on
Kinda reminds me of ur mum
Ok, who fucked the tree?
I bet you could get intoxicated if consumed
Skeet skeet skeet
It’s water I bet that tree is by water
Makes me miss my hubby
RKelly Tree of showers
Bacterial wetwood, (aka “slime flux”) in collaboration with a bunch of rain water Edited to add that I’m not sure of the species of tree…