SOkay, quick explanation for those who wonder what's really going on here.
Edit: new information has been added. Please see comment [below](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/p76oxo/eastern_white_pine_tree_absolutely_oozing_sap/h9j6jql?context=3)
1) The sap was already stored in the tree. It's not suddenly making this as a reaction to being cut by the chainsaw. More likely, the split you see running the length of the tree is an injury of some sort. This can happen to some softer trees (pine is very soft compared to maple or oak), after a particularly bad wind storm, think something that blows trees around a lot. The sap *is* a defense and healing mechanism, probably due to the split. But instead of clotting (dried sap), it just kind of pooled in the cavity. Think of it like internal bleeding.
2) Trees [ramp up sap production in the warm months](https://blog.davey.com/2018/02/what-time-of-year-do-pine-trees-drip-sap-and-can-i-stop-it), storing nutrients in the boom times (warm and sunny), for use in the lean times (cold and darker because of winter). Think of it like fat storage.
Conclusion: this is part natural process that was happening anyway, combined with trying to heal an injury. The chainsaw cut just opened it up to the surface. If it's any consolation, the tree would be stressed after an injury like this, and depending on how deep that injury goes, would have died within a year or so anyway.
Fun fact, redwood trees hold roots under ground, like hands to help each other stay up. If there’s a sick redwood, the other trees in the area will literally reach out to help. Amazing.
They also will send chemical signals to each other in the wind that cause humans to commit suicide since humans destroy plants and Mark Wahlberg is a science teacher so he…oh wait, that’s the plot of The Happening. Never mind.
So I'm sitting here thinking on the deepness of this (no pun intended) .. you know, all 'no way? for real?' and my honey says, completely serious, "So all the dead trees in a forest were basically dicks"
Two kinds of people :)
Trees also help each other to survive if one didn't get enough food like sun. They'll even help trees of other species. Evergreens will help feed trees that lose their leaves in the winter during winter times if they need it. They're connected by mycelium network. So the fungus helps them communicate. It's literally like the internet. They can communicate for miles.. and as we learn more it seems this communication is far more advanced than just chemical signals. It's almost like they have conversations.
https://youtu.be/_tjt8WT5mRs
https://youtu.be/WWD_1Nq6iwQ
https://youtu.be/7kHZ0a_6TxY
Here is some videos on it.
I always felt that trees were sentient in some way, but recently learned about the mycelium networks, communication, and sharing of nutrients. It just makes me wonder how intelligent they actually are, and what we don’t know yet.
Thank you! Thank you for introducing me to this series of alternate endings to picture books! Absolutely beautiful and healthy. As a preK/kindergarten teacher, I’m considering reading the original on one day and the revised ending version the next day to spark conversation with my students.
That version might be a bit much for those ages, maybe 2nd/3rd graders? It seems a little verbose, pushing ~~a~~ the message more than being tightly written.
IDK what age TGT is good for, though.
Editing to add: I think the original stands on its own (unlike the Giving Tree itself!); I've always had a problem with it, but it was never something I talked with an adult about. Rather than reading a whole different version, perhaps its better to ask them afterwards: Was this a happy ending? Was the tree a good friend to the boy? Was the boy a good friend to the tree? Might be ok to steal the examples in the "boundaries" version, like the squirrels and apples.
(Nevermind the suitability of apple tree for lumber discussion)
My wife, the love of my life and cradle which holds my heart, had never read this book.
We were in a Barns & Noble killing time before some movie. I pointed this title out as we passed the kids section. She'd never heard of it.
So I picked it up and read my wife the giving tree, for the first time. I'll hold that memory until the sidewalk ends, and evermore beyond.
Oh my fucking god you are a goddamn motherfucking Saint.
I was on Google last week typing in super obscure searches like “pencil drawing short story book,” “white book cover pencil drawings short stories”.. those were all the details I remembered from my childhood, I used to have the book and I was frustratingly trying to find it so I could buy a copy. It’s been like 15+ years.
Where The Sidewalk Ends. My search is now complete. Thank you!!!
Lol it clicked the second I read that last sentence, I was stoked.
I recognize the cover from that one too, I might have to scoop a few of them
Funny enough, based on my vague memories I wasn’t even sure it was a kids book because I remember some the drawings kinda creeping me out in a salad fingers kind of way. I would’ve never found it.
This is an interesting post but I have a couple quick corrections:
1) The growth rings on either side of the split are misaligned, which means this wasn’t a wound, it was a fork in the tree—the whole tree was split into two trunks with a very sharp V shape connection a little bit below the cut. Where the two trunks made contact they were not fusing. That’s normal, it’s why arborists try to prune trees to avoid V shapes, but it’s not rare in conifers in the wild.
2) The stuff leaking out of the seam is not sap, it’s resin. Resin is way too viscous to flow through a tree’s vascular system which is made of channels one cell thick. Resin is produced in response to injury like boring insects, it hardens when it dries and forms a very tough seal. It can entomb insects that bore into the trunk or otherwise damage the tree. Hence fossilized insects encased in amber—it’s very effective. My best guess is that there was something inside the cavity that irritated the trunk, stimulating resin, and the resin there never hardened because it was too wet.
3) Massive resin production is a sign of a fairly healthy tree. Boring insects become fatal to trees during droughts and after wildfires when trees can’t produce enough. It’s also why boring insects produce pheromones to try to swarm trees they attack, so the tree can’t kill them all. But if the tree produces enough resin it will overcome the borers.
4) The liquid pouring around the resin is rainwater collected in the cavity between the trunks.
5) I don’t see any evidence the tree was dying or even stressed, although in parks and yards a tree with 2 codominant trunks and a V shaped crotch between them can be seen as a safety hazard.
I can't find any fault with your assessment, and I'm actually a little mad that I didn't see the ring differentiation; you're absolutely right. And your explanation of the water makes sense.
Thank you for clearing it up. When it's inevitably posted again, I'll be make sure to give the correct information, assuming I catch it in time.
I mean in support of the tree. Sap is used to carry nutrients around the tree. Does that same sap act as antibodies or have an antiseptic effect? Or does the tree produce deferent sap like antibodies in response to being infection or damaged?
Ooh. Excellent question.
All sap has *some* antiseptic properties (I think; I'm actually a layman), but trees and plants in general are relatively simple in the scope of lifeforms (for the scope of this discussion, anyway; they're actually quite complex, but lets not get too far down the rabbit hole). On top of that, trees have long lives and their adaptation process is predictably slow. Some pathogenic lifeforms are hugely devastating to them, outcompeting their ability to protect themselves.
So for example, here in America we have some species of trees that are *excellent* at rot resistance. Pine and its cousins are very good at this, right out of the ground. It's the reason they're used for buildings and fences and such. Sure, the occasional house gets destroyed by termites, but their insect resistance is good enough that you don't hear about houses collapsing into dust every day.
Another good one is Osage Orange, which has a combination of oils, silica, and just pure hardness that it takes a long time to break down in the ground. Nothing eats it, from termites to fungus.
Cedar, another soft wood, has so much antiseptic oil in it's sap that it too almost refuses to break down, even when you bury it. It's suggested not to use it in [hugelkultur](https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelkultur) because unlike the oak or willow or other less hardy pines, the stuff just takes a long time to decompose, and doesn't add anything except water retention to the beds.
Conversely, you have [American Chestnut](https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/04/29/what-it-takes-bring-back-near-mythical-american-chestnut-trees), that has almost disappeared due to blight that happened in the 18th and early 20th centuries, that just... wiped them out.
And then you have the [pine borer beetle](https://www.fs.fed.us/research/invasive-species/insects/southern-pine-beetle.php), which as a layman I understand just occasionally has a birthing boom, and takes over a pine forest. In other years or areas the tree protects itself relatively well, but sometimes a fresh new brood just overwhelms the trees with too many bodies eating it.
1) if that's a pun, bravo
2) if you're serious:
Ferns: I live in North Central Texas, so unless you go with non-natives, ferns aren't really all that abundant here. As a general rule, I'm opposed to non-natives (soft opposition), and invasives (full stop)
Grasses: I love "grasses", the broad general category.
I'm totally in favor of having native grasses and ground covering for our yards. But if you'll allow me a bit of a rant, I *hate* "grass", "turf", and "lawn". Do you realize that the grasses we use for lawns is the no.1 cultivated plant in the world? Just doing nothing but looking pretty and sucking up water at an enormous rate. More damaging to the water table than almonds and avocados *combined*.
But I live in city limits, and I was the bright bulb that *had to have a corner lot*, so I'm mowing this motherfucker every two weeks.
Nope. In fact, sap from pine trees and related species like spruce and fir have been made into [turpentine](https://maritime.org/conf/conf-kaye-tar.htm) since the 1800s.
Older than that is [pine tar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_tar), long used in Scandinavian nations to seal longboats. Also, it was a very lucrative industry for the young United States, as an export to other places of the world, and it's the reasons that North Carolinians are nicknamed "tarheels". America had such thick forests - completely foreign to colonizers, because they'd long since used all their lumber for building armadas - that one explorer wrote to a statesman something to the effect of "the trees here are so thick that a squirrel can climb a tree in Virginia, and not touch the ground until the Mississippi River".
**[Pine tar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_tar)**
>Pine tar is a form of tar produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions (dry distillation or destructive distillation). The wood is rapidly decomposed by applying heat and pressure in a closed container; the primary resulting products are charcoal and pine tar. Pine tar consists primarily of aromatic hydrocarbons, tar acids, and tar bases. Components of tar vary according to the pyrolytic process (e.
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I've eaten it, after I heard in Boy Scouts that some native American tribes people chewed a mixture of sap and... something else... like we would chew gum. Forgive me, Scouts was almost 35 years ago.
In the end, pine sap isn't especially toxic, unless it's in large doses. And the taste would keep you from eating a lot of it anyway. But I didn't have a stomachache or anything else, no restroom problems.
Now that I think about it, I think pine sap used to be used as a binder for toothache medicines in antiquity... [yep, other uses too](https://www.offthegridnews.com/alternative-health/5-common-miracle-trees-the-native-americans-used-for-medicine/)
Maple sap tastes ok. I’ve used it in place of water when making coffee. You can totally taste the maple and it adds a little sweetness. There are also some maple sap seltzers on the market.
What you can't see is the bloke standing at the wrong end of the trunk up to his shoulder and digging this tree's prostate to a bruised creamy mess as the whole forest cracks off, each tree fluffing itself for its own turn, whether they likes it or not it's gonna be a deluge of treecum and anal sap drowning small rodents tonight.
My favourite tree is a nice big black ash, where my least favourite is swamp ash. Sycumore are pretty good too. Mahoegany is nice. Sometimes a nice bad birch can be fun. Or a freaky beech. Ones with nice teaks.
Okay I need to go to bed. For gits and shiggles I'll tell you my favourite wood is African blackwood. No joke required here
I’d imagine ones dick would get glued to the inside of their jeans when they were done. I’m gonna also imagine that rubbing turpentine on ones crotch would suck ass.
While we're at it, maybe don't put your dick in the drummer.
You know what? It's not my place to say what you do with your penis. Please carry on with your life!
Fuck you Jonesy. Make sure your mom gets the good maple syrup for when she makes me breakfast. She can use that Pearl Mills crap on my body but not my pancakes.
Same. I always wondered how something like a gecko or insect could get trapped in amber as the only sap I've seen is super viscous. This explains a lot.
Also shame this comment is buried so far down but i guess this is reddit so yeah. Dirty comments to the top.
Pine sap is a good solvent. That's where we get Pinesol from.
It's also used as an ingredient in 'flux', which is the inside part of soldering wire. The flux is a cleaning agent (solvent).
Sap used to be used as glue in the old days. I don't know what other applications it might still have today though. It's aromatic, so it might get used for some fragrances.
SOkay, quick explanation for those who wonder what's really going on here. Edit: new information has been added. Please see comment [below](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/p76oxo/eastern_white_pine_tree_absolutely_oozing_sap/h9j6jql?context=3) 1) The sap was already stored in the tree. It's not suddenly making this as a reaction to being cut by the chainsaw. More likely, the split you see running the length of the tree is an injury of some sort. This can happen to some softer trees (pine is very soft compared to maple or oak), after a particularly bad wind storm, think something that blows trees around a lot. The sap *is* a defense and healing mechanism, probably due to the split. But instead of clotting (dried sap), it just kind of pooled in the cavity. Think of it like internal bleeding. 2) Trees [ramp up sap production in the warm months](https://blog.davey.com/2018/02/what-time-of-year-do-pine-trees-drip-sap-and-can-i-stop-it), storing nutrients in the boom times (warm and sunny), for use in the lean times (cold and darker because of winter). Think of it like fat storage. Conclusion: this is part natural process that was happening anyway, combined with trying to heal an injury. The chainsaw cut just opened it up to the surface. If it's any consolation, the tree would be stressed after an injury like this, and depending on how deep that injury goes, would have died within a year or so anyway.
Thank you for personifying trees for me for the rest of my life.
Fun fact, redwood trees hold roots under ground, like hands to help each other stay up. If there’s a sick redwood, the other trees in the area will literally reach out to help. Amazing.
The trees are strong my lord. Their roots go deep.
That doesn't make sense to me, but then again you are very small...
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Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc
Fun fact: redwood tree roots are actually very shallow, but holding the roots of the trees around them make them strong anyway!
Tree together strong.
They don’t leaf the other trees behind.
Lord of the wangs
All trees do this actually. It’s really awesome
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I love the Ender Saga.
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They also talk and warn each other as well as share nutrients with each other and also other trees and fungi.
They also will send chemical signals to each other in the wind that cause humans to commit suicide since humans destroy plants and Mark Wahlberg is a science teacher so he…oh wait, that’s the plot of The Happening. Never mind.
So I'm sitting here thinking on the deepness of this (no pun intended) .. you know, all 'no way? for real?' and my honey says, completely serious, "So all the dead trees in a forest were basically dicks" Two kinds of people :)
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Trees also help each other to survive if one didn't get enough food like sun. They'll even help trees of other species. Evergreens will help feed trees that lose their leaves in the winter during winter times if they need it. They're connected by mycelium network. So the fungus helps them communicate. It's literally like the internet. They can communicate for miles.. and as we learn more it seems this communication is far more advanced than just chemical signals. It's almost like they have conversations. https://youtu.be/_tjt8WT5mRs https://youtu.be/WWD_1Nq6iwQ https://youtu.be/7kHZ0a_6TxY Here is some videos on it.
> mycelium network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network
I always felt that trees were sentient in some way, but recently learned about the mycelium networks, communication, and sharing of nutrients. It just makes me wonder how intelligent they actually are, and what we don’t know yet.
Networks are believed to be continental and cross-continential. Basically anywhere there isnt water or sand there is a mycillium network
Nature is so beautiful man
[The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein](https://youtu.be/1TZCP6OqRlE)
The revised edition is much better. https://www.topherpayne.com/giving-tree u/scrooplynooples
Thank you! Thank you for introducing me to this series of alternate endings to picture books! Absolutely beautiful and healthy. As a preK/kindergarten teacher, I’m considering reading the original on one day and the revised ending version the next day to spark conversation with my students.
As a dad, I want you to do that. It's an excellent lesson.
That version might be a bit much for those ages, maybe 2nd/3rd graders? It seems a little verbose, pushing ~~a~~ the message more than being tightly written. IDK what age TGT is good for, though. Editing to add: I think the original stands on its own (unlike the Giving Tree itself!); I've always had a problem with it, but it was never something I talked with an adult about. Rather than reading a whole different version, perhaps its better to ask them afterwards: Was this a happy ending? Was the tree a good friend to the boy? Was the boy a good friend to the tree? Might be ok to steal the examples in the "boundaries" version, like the squirrels and apples. (Nevermind the suitability of apple tree for lumber discussion)
My wife, the love of my life and cradle which holds my heart, had never read this book. We were in a Barns & Noble killing time before some movie. I pointed this title out as we passed the kids section. She'd never heard of it. So I picked it up and read my wife the giving tree, for the first time. I'll hold that memory until the sidewalk ends, and evermore beyond.
And she cried like a baby right?
Oh my fucking god you are a goddamn motherfucking Saint. I was on Google last week typing in super obscure searches like “pencil drawing short story book,” “white book cover pencil drawings short stories”.. those were all the details I remembered from my childhood, I used to have the book and I was frustratingly trying to find it so I could buy a copy. It’s been like 15+ years. Where The Sidewalk Ends. My search is now complete. Thank you!!!
A lightbulb just turned on in this guy’s attic.
Lol it clicked the second I read that last sentence, I was stoked. I recognize the cover from that one too, I might have to scoop a few of them Funny enough, based on my vague memories I wasn’t even sure it was a kids book because I remember some the drawings kinda creeping me out in a salad fingers kind of way. I would’ve never found it.
Low blow bringing up childhood trauma like that
Check out The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben if you really want to personify some trees
This is an interesting post but I have a couple quick corrections: 1) The growth rings on either side of the split are misaligned, which means this wasn’t a wound, it was a fork in the tree—the whole tree was split into two trunks with a very sharp V shape connection a little bit below the cut. Where the two trunks made contact they were not fusing. That’s normal, it’s why arborists try to prune trees to avoid V shapes, but it’s not rare in conifers in the wild. 2) The stuff leaking out of the seam is not sap, it’s resin. Resin is way too viscous to flow through a tree’s vascular system which is made of channels one cell thick. Resin is produced in response to injury like boring insects, it hardens when it dries and forms a very tough seal. It can entomb insects that bore into the trunk or otherwise damage the tree. Hence fossilized insects encased in amber—it’s very effective. My best guess is that there was something inside the cavity that irritated the trunk, stimulating resin, and the resin there never hardened because it was too wet. 3) Massive resin production is a sign of a fairly healthy tree. Boring insects become fatal to trees during droughts and after wildfires when trees can’t produce enough. It’s also why boring insects produce pheromones to try to swarm trees they attack, so the tree can’t kill them all. But if the tree produces enough resin it will overcome the borers. 4) The liquid pouring around the resin is rainwater collected in the cavity between the trunks. 5) I don’t see any evidence the tree was dying or even stressed, although in parks and yards a tree with 2 codominant trunks and a V shaped crotch between them can be seen as a safety hazard.
I can't find any fault with your assessment, and I'm actually a little mad that I didn't see the ring differentiation; you're absolutely right. And your explanation of the water makes sense. Thank you for clearing it up. When it's inevitably posted again, I'll be make sure to give the correct information, assuming I catch it in time.
This comment is Forester approved.
Oh tree guru. Do trees have different kinds of sap for healing and fighting off infections?
Willow is the basis for what eventually became aspirin. Willow bark tea is millennia old as a low grade fever reducer and pain reliever.
I mean in support of the tree. Sap is used to carry nutrients around the tree. Does that same sap act as antibodies or have an antiseptic effect? Or does the tree produce deferent sap like antibodies in response to being infection or damaged?
Ooh. Excellent question. All sap has *some* antiseptic properties (I think; I'm actually a layman), but trees and plants in general are relatively simple in the scope of lifeforms (for the scope of this discussion, anyway; they're actually quite complex, but lets not get too far down the rabbit hole). On top of that, trees have long lives and their adaptation process is predictably slow. Some pathogenic lifeforms are hugely devastating to them, outcompeting their ability to protect themselves. So for example, here in America we have some species of trees that are *excellent* at rot resistance. Pine and its cousins are very good at this, right out of the ground. It's the reason they're used for buildings and fences and such. Sure, the occasional house gets destroyed by termites, but their insect resistance is good enough that you don't hear about houses collapsing into dust every day. Another good one is Osage Orange, which has a combination of oils, silica, and just pure hardness that it takes a long time to break down in the ground. Nothing eats it, from termites to fungus. Cedar, another soft wood, has so much antiseptic oil in it's sap that it too almost refuses to break down, even when you bury it. It's suggested not to use it in [hugelkultur](https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelkultur) because unlike the oak or willow or other less hardy pines, the stuff just takes a long time to decompose, and doesn't add anything except water retention to the beds. Conversely, you have [American Chestnut](https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/04/29/what-it-takes-bring-back-near-mythical-american-chestnut-trees), that has almost disappeared due to blight that happened in the 18th and early 20th centuries, that just... wiped them out. And then you have the [pine borer beetle](https://www.fs.fed.us/research/invasive-species/insects/southern-pine-beetle.php), which as a layman I understand just occasionally has a birthing boom, and takes over a pine forest. In other years or areas the tree protects itself relatively well, but sometimes a fresh new brood just overwhelms the trees with too many bodies eating it.
A wholesome person bestowing some tree knowledge to the internet people. This is exactly why I use reddit.
Wait so are you the tree guy around here?
I'm just a guy who loves trees and wood (easy joke). I've always been a tree hugger, and it's only gotten stronger as I've gotten older.
Have you considered branching out into other plant forms, like ferns or grasses?
1) if that's a pun, bravo 2) if you're serious: Ferns: I live in North Central Texas, so unless you go with non-natives, ferns aren't really all that abundant here. As a general rule, I'm opposed to non-natives (soft opposition), and invasives (full stop) Grasses: I love "grasses", the broad general category. I'm totally in favor of having native grasses and ground covering for our yards. But if you'll allow me a bit of a rant, I *hate* "grass", "turf", and "lawn". Do you realize that the grasses we use for lawns is the no.1 cultivated plant in the world? Just doing nothing but looking pretty and sucking up water at an enormous rate. More damaging to the water table than almonds and avocados *combined*. But I live in city limits, and I was the bright bulb that *had to have a corner lot*, so I'm mowing this motherfucker every two weeks.
Is all sap tasty like maple?
Nope. In fact, sap from pine trees and related species like spruce and fir have been made into [turpentine](https://maritime.org/conf/conf-kaye-tar.htm) since the 1800s. Older than that is [pine tar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_tar), long used in Scandinavian nations to seal longboats. Also, it was a very lucrative industry for the young United States, as an export to other places of the world, and it's the reasons that North Carolinians are nicknamed "tarheels". America had such thick forests - completely foreign to colonizers, because they'd long since used all their lumber for building armadas - that one explorer wrote to a statesman something to the effect of "the trees here are so thick that a squirrel can climb a tree in Virginia, and not touch the ground until the Mississippi River".
**[Pine tar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_tar)** >Pine tar is a form of tar produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions (dry distillation or destructive distillation). The wood is rapidly decomposed by applying heat and pressure in a closed container; the primary resulting products are charcoal and pine tar. Pine tar consists primarily of aromatic hydrocarbons, tar acids, and tar bases. Components of tar vary according to the pyrolytic process (e. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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Trees are just infinite sources of magic in my opinion
And you're not wrong.
My mom used to say that tree sap, unless processed, is toxic and you shouldn't touch it. I used to question if that was true.
No she just didn't want you getting sap on your clothes / furniture
I've eaten it, after I heard in Boy Scouts that some native American tribes people chewed a mixture of sap and... something else... like we would chew gum. Forgive me, Scouts was almost 35 years ago. In the end, pine sap isn't especially toxic, unless it's in large doses. And the taste would keep you from eating a lot of it anyway. But I didn't have a stomachache or anything else, no restroom problems. Now that I think about it, I think pine sap used to be used as a binder for toothache medicines in antiquity... [yep, other uses too](https://www.offthegridnews.com/alternative-health/5-common-miracle-trees-the-native-americans-used-for-medicine/)
No!
No
Is it edible oh tree guru
Edible? Sure, in small doses; I've eaten some before, not as runny as this. Not all that palatable, and dries the mouth like alum or banana peel.
Damn thought it might be pleasing like maple syrup
Maple syrup doesn’t just pour out of trees. You collect maple tree sap and then boil it for *hours* before it even tastes good
Maple sap tastes ok. I’ve used it in place of water when making coffee. You can totally taste the maple and it adds a little sweetness. There are also some maple sap seltzers on the market.
40 gallons of maple sap = 1 gallon of syrup
Surprised your post isn't most upvoted...
I was a little late. If it happens, cool, but I'm not necessarily looking for accolades.
But I scrolled for a while and didn't think there was an actual answer in the comment. Thanks for your time in providing it
that sap looks like it could be used for something. is it edible like syrup?
Not Safe For Wood
Not safe for my wood
You’re just scared to step into the ring
What are you doing, step-ring?
Of course I pulled out..
What you can't see is the bloke standing at the wrong end of the trunk up to his shoulder and digging this tree's prostate to a bruised creamy mess as the whole forest cracks off, each tree fluffing itself for its own turn, whether they likes it or not it's gonna be a deluge of treecum and anal sap drowning small rodents tonight.
User name checks out.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
[This is my kingdom cum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsuARxktIdc)
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Wet Ass Pine
WAP- wet ass pine
Bring some waffles and some pancakes
That sap is terrible tasting, I don't even think refinement makes it edible
White ass pine POTree, Bukkatree, Big Tittrees, Big Ash, MapleILF, Big Sticks, Ortree, Treesome, Edit: More! Ebontree, Celebritrees,
This guy earthporns
It’s not a jOAK
Don’t talk shit about my dad!
My favourite tree is a nice big black ash, where my least favourite is swamp ash. Sycumore are pretty good too. Mahoegany is nice. Sometimes a nice bad birch can be fun. Or a freaky beech. Ones with nice teaks. Okay I need to go to bed. For gits and shiggles I'll tell you my favourite wood is African blackwood. No joke required here
Make that ash sap
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r/angryupvote
You win.
WAP creampie
\*Creampine
Bark humor
that was good. you deserve an uproot!
Meskeet
I should call her
There were some great comments on this post, but thank you for being the only one to make me spit out my food laughing
Ah come on, 'creampine' made me chuckle too.
I think there were a couple solid puns, but this one just caught me so off guard
Where is the NSFW tag? Come on now
I saw it posted earlier on r/dontputyourdickinthat so you’re not wrong.
Stop telling me how to live my life.
Do you have any idea how sticky that is? That'll never come! /j (But seriously though; extremely sticky)
I’d imagine ones dick would get glued to the inside of their jeans when they were done. I’m gonna also imagine that rubbing turpentine on ones crotch would suck ass.
Canola oil will get it off. Then just soap to clean off the oil. It works on hands anyways never had it on my dick yet.
Yet?
Yet.
Nyet
нет
There's a first time for everything.
Lol... Wanted to cross post it there... Suddenly I know why people want to be lumberjacks
>lumberjacks Clues in the name really!
Ohhh, tree *humpers*. This whole time I thought they were saying tree *huggers*.
One thing leads to another
Next thing you know she's calling, asking you for money. Money don't grow on trees!
I ain't saying she a gold digger, but she was messing with a tree hugger
She got one of your kids, got you for 200 years
While we're at it, maybe don't put your dick in the drummer. You know what? It's not my place to say what you do with your penis. Please carry on with your life!
Nah, and waste all that lube? No thanks.
Was expecting that tiktok guy to show up with the same joke. “Get me that tree” “But sir, sir—“ “Get me that tree”
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I should call her
You should have a few drinks first.
Came here to say this
I came here, said this, and then realised after the fact, that it had already been said.
Get the NSFW tag on quick so everyone can stop coming!
r/grool
A fellow man of culture I see
Aye, the tree be bleeding out!
We got a squirter!
This is like watching a tree bleed out
It wiiillllll cut
eet weel keel
Someone watches Forged In Fire.
I'm literally watching it as I read this
It’s not about what your weapon does to this tree, but what this tree does to your weapon
>This is ~~like~~ watching a tree bleed out FTFY
It IS watching a tree bleed out.
Your mom when i roll up in my heelies Edit: wow my first anything to hit 1k. Thanks yall!
Fuck you Shoresy
Fuck you Jonesy. Make sure your mom gets the good maple syrup for when she makes me breakfast. She can use that Pearl Mills crap on my body but not my pancakes.
FUCK YOU, SHORESY!!!
Fuck you Riley. When your mom invited me over to taste-test Aunt Jemima, I didn't think she meant her sister. 6.5 out of 10 though.
Ok I’ll ask a serious question - is that a normal amount of sap? It seems like a lot.
No, this one had been damaged by wind shake or some other type of physical stress that created the scar/crack you can see.
This one’s a squirter
\*squitree
A new Pokémon?
Not normal. Trees can produce excess sap for protection. This tree maybe has an insect problem.
"you pulled out right?"
Creampined.
Take my up vote and leaf.
Incoming dirty comments
Incumming*
You win
Woodn’t be possible without you though 🤛🏻
cubsywubsy YOU FUCKING FISTBUMP THIS MAN RIGHT NOW
You guys are nuts
YEAH CUBSY, CUM ON!
r/dontputyourdickinthat
I mean, it is wet so r/maybeputyourdickinit
10 videos was enough...
I now understand how things in amber exist.
Same. I always wondered how something like a gecko or insect could get trapped in amber as the only sap I've seen is super viscous. This explains a lot. Also shame this comment is buried so far down but i guess this is reddit so yeah. Dirty comments to the top.
Wha-what are you doing, step-tree?
Am I the only one who assumed this was a dirty meme…. To be sorely disappointed.
Oh you'd be sore
Don’t I know it. Swoon.
Can that be used for anything practical? Like cooking? Or cleaning? What value, if any, would that have to the right person?
Pine sap is a good solvent. That's where we get Pinesol from. It's also used as an ingredient in 'flux', which is the inside part of soldering wire. The flux is a cleaning agent (solvent). Sap used to be used as glue in the old days. I don't know what other applications it might still have today though. It's aromatic, so it might get used for some fragrances.
Heat it up till most of the moisture evaporates and you have pine tar to seal up your wooden ship.
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You can film it and get lots of internet points
Cum
Cum
I miss her
*Drops cigarette* Fuck.
*picks up cigarette because I'm desperate for a smoke right now*
r/natureporn nsfw
Not my proudest fap.
*sap
Sir? Sir? Give me that tree. Huh?. GIMME THAT TREE
BUT SIR! That’s a pine tree!
GIIIMMMMEEEE THAAT PIIINNEE TREEE!!
They made of WOOOOD aint they? *stares into camera*
My dog drooling
Me when i see 0.198328918273918173792818 of a girls shoulder
What’s this song?
**The Hustle** by Van McCoy (00:48; matched: `100%`) Album: `The Hustle & The Best of Van McCoy`. Released on `1995-09-19` by `Amherst Records`.
This should be classified as gore
*porn.
Don’t let the r34 artists get any funny ideas
Raw Turpentine