How does this survive?

[DrewB]

Saw this over a year ago and last week(pic) its still going strong

[Amelanchier]

Young trees are nearly 100% dynamic mass - i.e., all the tissue either side of the girdling is capable of storing energy. Its just running off that. I know a young Liriodendron near me that suffered a similar fate and looked fine til failing to bud fully in year three.

 

Shame.

Edited January 18, 2010 by Amelanchier
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[DrewB]

cheers tony, i thought that might be the case

[Amelanchier]

Oh and just to add, its likely that only the phloem has been damaged, some of the xylem might still be functioning so the foliage may still be recieving water from the roots. However, as the roots metabolise their energy reserves below the wound they won't be getting any back from up top.

[atree]

Ash! ..........Fell it.

[Mark Cattell]

I have seen young trees survive this type of brutal treatment....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ash! ..........Fell it.

 

personaly I love ash, so leave em alone!

 

the bugs favourite fodder, the boring insects i mean, Stags etc

[David Humphries]

A Turkey Oak that Ted Green ring barked at Windsor to halo the adjacent vet & create standing dead wood, and a Beech Rb'd at Burnham Beeches as an experiment for David Londsdale.

Both persisted a good few years after wounding.

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

nice bit of Bjerkandera adusta on the oak there monkey!

[atree]

personaly I love ash, so leave em alone!

 

the bugs favourite fodder, the boring insects i mean, Stags etc

 

Its a long story.