Interesting Biomechanics

[sean]

Yellow buckeye just about holding on to life.

 

Buds forming on the remaining cambial tissue and what's left of the graft is sending down an aerial root.

 

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Will be interesting to see that in a year or two.

[treeseer]

Love those new roots!

 

Why is so much soil on the stem?

[David Humphries]

Love those new roots!

 

Why is so much soil on the stem?

 

 

Not one of my trees Guy, but it's on a lower section of a slope in sandy soil so may get accumulation of erosion soil from above.

 

 

 

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[atree]

How do those witches broom's form David?Ive seen them on hemlock and fir here.

[David Humphries]

How do those witches broom's form David?Ive seen them on hemlock and fir here.

 

Sorry Adam, just saw this.

 

Can be a number of different things.

Bacteria, fungi, insects

The buds hormones get interfered with by the above, and can cause the multiple bud/twig proliferation, instead of the normal single growth.

 

 

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[Jake Andrews]

Fallen field maple due to delignified white rot in the roots. Carpet of new shoots aiming skyward toward the woodland canopy hole where the tree once stood.

[David Humphries]

Coppiced woodland Jake?

 

 

 

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[Jake Andrews]

A fallen Hawthorn had its protruding root cut off as it must have been blocking the walkway. Interesting to see it starting to callus.

[Jake Andrews]

Coppiced woodland Jake?

 

 

 

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Potentially as there are a lot of hazel and field maple as understorey. Mainly old oak as the canopy. If it used to be coppiced it hasn't for a long time. A small Brook that can overflow slightly undermined this tree and probably put to much pressure on the single tension root that had significant white rot.

[daltontrees]

This is a rather puzzling cherry stem. At first sight I thought it loked like a basal graft and another graft at 2m. But close up it doesn't look like grafts. Anyone got any ideas what's going on?