Daren maybe he is condisering setting the tree on fire, in which case the tip of the flame is always going to point upward. Unless there is an extremely strong wind then it will point sideways. :laughing:
Jon, crotchwood is not always going to have a "flame" pattern to begin with. It can have any sort of figure practically and can even be rather plain. There is not really a standard answer for that question at least as I understand it.
Maybe you can ask it a different way?