Swampy, a friend and I where walking his fence line cutting up blow downs when we spotted an unusual tree. He called back to me to look at this weird hawthorn, it was covered in thorns as well as blunted not quite as developed thorns. I looked it over and it looks like one of those witches nest things in a spruce, ie it has an abnornally high number of small branches with tight spacing.
Looking it over there were spruce needles still attached. The thorns were sharp and quite smooth, like hawthorn, not like wild apple trees, and it was growing in a area with plenty of hawthorn so I'm a bit confused.
Did this spruce have some kind of genetic damage? Its under a foot of snow or I would go get a picture of it!
