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A picture supposedly showing an unusual wood pattern beneath the bark of a burned tree is met with a wide range of reactions (and humorous comments) whenever it circulates on social media: This is a genuine photograph of wood burl, a growth in a tree that causes deformed grain, beneath the bark of a burned tree. While we have not been able to locate the exact source of this image, we have found images showing similar wood burl patterns, such as the following video from Hunski Hardwoods, an urban logging company: John Dittes, a trained botanist with 30 years experience in education and natural resource consulting, said that he first encountered the spaghetti tree image circa 2017. While he couldn't remember exactly where it came from, he said that he was 100% sure it was real and shared a similar example of this spaghetti burl pattern: While burl is a tree deformity, it can come in some beautiful patterns that makes it valuable to wood workers. Here's Hunski Hardwoods description of burl on its website: One reason this image may have drawn skepticism is that it is reminiscent of a famous April Fool's Day joke pulled by the BBC in 1957, when the respected news outlet put out a video report about an annual spaghetti harvest: While the recent tree picture may be reminiscent of the famous spaghetti tree hoax, the picture did not originate with the BBC. This is a genuine photograph of burl wood beneath the bark of a burned tree.
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