Have exactly same experience! Ray's pictures seem to picked from my own technical report years ago! Funny..
If the ceramic surface is impure + flux residues + little humidity + more than 5VDC..then these XMas trees will sometimes grow. Silver most commonly seen. We video recorded the thing...growth from one end to the other of the cap took less than one minute! 
The cap manufacturer adjusted the improper end metallisation, we adjusted the flux, and the phenomenon is never seen any more.
Ingemar Hernefjord
Ericsson Microwave Systems

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Subject: Re: [TN] Crystalline growth across a capacitor...the next stage


Hi Ray!

I've posted your EDX up on my page too...

-Steve Gregory-


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