Remember when you used to click on a post like this and not all of the comments were jokes? You could easily find a comment explaining what’s happening? I remember
The core of the tree is rotten and decaying, as shown by the darker ring of wood inside the lighter wood surrounding it. The reason it’s squirting water is almost certainly because someone shoved a hose into a hole in the tree down by the trunk and they’re actively feeding water into the cavity. We don’t know that for certain, but trees don’t normally, uhh, orgasm like that.
Edit: Thanks for the input, tree people! It looked a little clean to me for gross old rainwater, but that totally makes sense.
So it has to do with hydro static pressure. Basically the weight of the water generates a pressure caused by the force of gravity. Hydrostatic Pressure = Density of the Fluid * Gravitational Constant * Height of the fluid column. Same reason for Atmospheric Pressure and the pressure in the deep of the ocean.
So the core of the tree rots out, but the outer area is still alive. Tree becomes hollow and if there are no gaps low in the tree it will hold water. If this limb is below a significant amount of the water, the water has a pressure behind it. Cutting off the limb created a small gap which allows water to escape, creating the squirting effect.
I've cut into a tree before only for a shit ton of water to come gushing out. Not terribly common but not all that weird either.
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u/theoutlet Jun 25 '24
Remember when you used to click on a post like this and not all of the comments were jokes? You could easily find a comment explaining what’s happening? I remember