Although they don’t all need painting. Correct me if I’m wrong @TheEdVerse, but there are trees in Faerun with completely black trunks, right? And pitch black branches? Duskwoods? Used for cooking because they are smokeless? Correct! Also from Rashemen east and south, there are spindly, spreading, low-branch trees (like real-world sumacs) that have jet-black trunks AND WOOD, and are known either as blackhorns or lowbranches. Always bent and crooked, and never thick of trunk. Springy, so much used…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 24, 2018
…for yokes, bows, and "spring" applications (like gates and doors meant to close themselves when released). Smokeless when burning because so much of it melts into a black liquid (useful in dyes) that hardens slowly as it cools, so can readily be scraped away from hearths.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 24, 2018
They are probably in the Spiderhaunt Woods, unless they got removed from the latest maps. Yes! Many duskwoods in the Spiderhaunt…and last time I looked, that forest was still very much there! With at least one adventuring group losXXX, er, sightseeing deep in it.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 24, 2018