We can't get enough of these custom Pecky Cypress drawers that were built in the Four Board Woodworks shop. The cause of Pecky is often misunderstood. No form of animal, insect or worm causes pecking and there is no possibility of the pecking continuing after the cypress tree is harvested. After the cypress is cut down, the causative agent itself is destroyed, leaving only the characteristic pocketing it created. Pecking is the result of a natural fungus (polyporus amarus) entering older living trees through branch loss or fires that destroy the bark. The live tissues exposed invite airborne fungi spores in, to begin the sculpturing process.