CLSranch
Almost Self-Reliant
Oddly MOST of the new evergreen trees are just variants picked, pulled or cut off of a damaged/mutated tree. I know my numbers are wrong but I want to say the # of species has doubled many times in the last century.The only species that looks anywhere similar is orange on the bottom and black on top. Doesn't have the same habbits, though, and I've never actually seen one here. No other one has any orange.
So freak mutation. Same as when they occasionally are black or even white. Happens in all creatures. I'm wondering how likely it is to pass the mutation on.
There's a skewbald deer that lives in the city down the hill. It had a skewbald fawn last year.
They just took something wrong and kept growing it. Ex. a small yellow patch (not supposed to be there) on a tree grafted to make a new sub species.