Posted by Chris Jones on July 13, 2012 at 12:44:23 from (98.26.240.6):
In Reply to: Re: OT:Lightning posted by Billy NY on July 13, 2012 at 11:25:35:
I don't know about the chunks that came off. What I understood was the lightning killed the tree and the tree was cut down and sent to a mill and the boards from the tree showed a unique greenish color and was valuable. I did some Googling myself as I heard this probably back in the '70s. I couldn't find anything either. I did see that apparently poplar wood color can be reddish, greenish or yellowish. (http://www.smcm.edu/arboretum/Pub_Tulip_Poplar.html) Perhaps back when I heard this story someone had one die from lightning and thought the wood was greenish because of the strike. That's beginning to sound likely. Maybe greenish is just a less common color for the wood. The less common something is the more people are generally willing to pay for it.
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