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no mother;

no bride;

and no king

I just recently learned that my Lāth, which I believed to be made from Wild Cherry wood, was actually harvested from a Hazel tree. The fact that I have been working with this tree for as long as I have been, and have misidentified it all along is, frankly, mindblowing.

When I first encountered the bough I harvested, the tree was in winter dormancy, which made it quite difficult to identify. Then, by the time it should have reawakened, it was cut back drastically by someone else, which made it even harder to properly identify. And after that, I just sort of took my initial assessment for granted.

Learning, all this time later, that my Lathe and its parent tree are Hazel is a fascinating development, and one I will have to keep looking into. I'm also going to have to make this longstanding misunderstanding up to the tree in question.

I guess it just goes to show that it's always good to double-check. And that plant identification is hard.

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