Young tree or old

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, CDMR said:

In the third picture, the sheep on the right appears to be pondering the same question.

 

For my 2p it's old.

They already know . They are just waiting to see if wee do .

[Chrissy]

i'm going with old.  Could argue its a coppice but it certainly doesn't look like an intentional coppice

[Stubby]

47 minutes ago, Chrissy said:

i'm going with old.  Could argue its a coppice but it certainly doesn't look like an intentional coppice

Intentional or not that's what it has done  ( provided an airborne seed has not landed there )  so I'm going with old .

[Gary Prentice]

9 hours ago, Chrissy said:

i'm going with old.  Could argue its a coppice but it certainly doesn't look like an intentional coppice

Is there any other type of coppice? Seeing as coppicing is a well defined management technique and practice, any other occurence of regeneration not caused intentionally by man (for the purpose of causing regenerative growth) should be named something different IMHO

 

Looking at the remnants of bud initials around the stem, i looks hat there was a lot of epicormic/basal shoots at some point, this one survived (maybe the others succumbed to grazing) and retaining a vascular connection to some roots while the parent tree declined and decay.

 

Old, but not coppice growth. (unless its a seed......) 

[Stubby]

3 minutes ago, Genword said:

An interesting question. I think it will be classified as young. Isn't that right? An interesting question. I think it will be classified as young. Isn't that right?

I think its old Isn't that right ? I think its old isn't that ri ....Oh you got me stuttering now ?

[Stubby]

8 minutes ago, Genword said:

An interesting question. I think it will be classified as young. Isn't that right? An interesting question. I think it will be classified as young. Isn't that right?

You have a wonderful smile in your avatar ( if its you )  . Its just that you type the same line twice .  Sorry I did not mean to be nasty .

[Stubby]

Just now, Genword said:

Do you follow me? trying to catch me everywhere? ha-ha

I am way to old to follow you let alone catch you ! ?

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, Genword said:

by the way, nice dog 

He is dead now ( like the tree )  . I have had 9 working cockers in my time . This latest one is the most bonkers !

[Mick Dempsey]

Is it not likely that it’s a seed from another tree that has rooted in the stump of this one?

[Stubby]

Just now, Mick Dempsey said:

Is it not likely that it’s a seed from another tree that has rooted in the stump of this one?

This has been pondered earlier on in the thread Mick .