It's funny how these things are heavily influenced by the readers' knowledge and experience: I wouldn't even blink at reading that, as my knowledge of wood is zero, hehe
Me = This is a tree. This is a little tree, that is a big tree, with darker wood. Trees, lots of trees. You can do things with wood, any wood

Obviously you've never bought tools for DIY and read the description. Wondered if metal, plastic or wooden handle is best on a hammer. Wood actually is best, but decent ones are the most expensive.
They STILL sell axes and hatchets with wooden handles.
It's a lot of work to write a first draft of a book. It's maybe x4 to x10 more to proof/revise/edit. It's really easy now to research.
Also I proof read now on an ereader, so even after the initial research, (a folder called Research and saving web pages, images, PDFs, documents and ebooks all in a per story folder), I'll look up stuff direct from ereader using wifi if not ABSOLUTELY sure I know it for a FACT. Then annotate. Later the annotations copied to a text file and further info added to resource textfiles. Then revise book in Wordprocessor.
Even imaginary stuff has reader expectations. Who was Thor's wife, Freyja's husband? What sorts of dragons are there and names?
Writers have a duty to get the simple facts right. Even in Fantasy.