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Olive Wood is really beautiful and expensive, I wonder if this will drive a decrease in the price of it.

In the US there is a special variety of pine killed by Mountain Pine Beetles that is relatively cheap but liked by woodworkers because the fungus that kills it leaves interesting blue streaks : https://www.sustainablelumberco.com/2015/03/beetle-kill-pine...




Reminds me of the burl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl

It's basically a kind of cancer inside the tree, but it's highly prized because it looks pretty.


Spalted maple is a fungal decay, halted before the wood becomes too unstable to work.




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