Pine tree showing traces of resin tapping

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It was a familiar sight of my childhood. In autumn, when we went mushroom collecting in the pine forests of Brandenburg, the carved trunks with their clay pots tied on and the smell of resin were always part of it. At that time, forest workers still carried out resin tapping. The bark was removed to cut a drip channel and slanting grooves into the tree. The resin that flowed out collected in a pot and was emptied regularly. From it, turpentine oil and rosin were produced. By the 1990s, the practice had disappeared. All the more remarkable, then, to find these well-preserved resin grooves on both sides of the trunk, still there thirty-five years later.

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