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This is some kind of mold? Rounds laying in my field where the trees were cut. Okay to bring in the house? Cut the ends off? Can anyone identify this? Thanks!
My GF helps me stack wood occasionally. After seeing various under-bark grubs and bugs in some of the pieces, I am forbidden from bringing it inside the house, unless it's going right into the fire. I don't even stack it up on the porch until the snow starts flying.
I'll just throw it with the reset of next years splits. My area is pretty wet.(where the trees were cut) We have tons of amphibs in the area and mushrooms galore. Haven't tried to eat any yet, haha.
My red oak rounds have the same shape/color of mold on them. They have been down for a month and sitting in the mostly-shade. Once split and put in the sun, the mold goes away.
Good to know kukuna. Thanks! I just didn't want that in the house. I bring a large volume in the house at a time, about one face cord. Curious of others experience with this type of mold. Appreciate it.
was it there when you cut it? Is it blueish in color? Where was this tree? Looks like it may be iron scars from fence, nails, whatever... in that tree at some time. Let us know what you find when splitting it and be grateful your saw didn't find it.
If it started after the rounds were cut I have no clue other than it will burn!!
It is a fungal stain. It occurs very quickly on the maples(you have Soft Maple) simple feed by the sugars in the wood, exposure to Oxygen, and high temps. It will not hurt a thing and will stop growing as wood dries.
There's black mold too, it is attracted to the sugars in tree sap. It finds itself on splits that you have drying out in the open. A reason that I top cover wood piles. I think its mostly cosmetic. I dont know if the spores in the mold can lay dormant and regrow.
I use clorox for bleaching wood if Im using it for a project. Rinsed in water.
I dont think fungal stains can be removed.
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