[Strictly selected by tea people] Gallwood tea tray, more cypress tumor

【Gall Wood】 Gallwood, also known as shadow wood, shade wood, is commonly known as tree tumor in Taiwan. In botany, it does not refer to the species of wood, but the wood with nodules on the trunk. Gallwood is a kind of diseased wood and one of the wood defects. Pathologically, this disease is also known as crown gall disease or root cancer. The causes are different, but most of them are caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. However, it is also the most valuable wood collection on the world market and the price continues to soar. In the early days, it was mainly made of natural shapes. In recent years, it has been popularly processed into tables and chairs, tea trays, or sculptures. 【Vietnamese cypress】 Vietnamese cypress, commonly known as Yue cypress, its scientific name is Hokkien cypress, a coniferous tree of the Cypress family, which is in the same family as cypress but a different genus. Hokkien cypress is distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, northern Vietnam, and northern Laos. China's timber was exhausted very early, and demand shifted to Southeast Asia. Even Japanese shrines that only use cypress trees are slowly accepting Hokkien cypress.