 Re: What will happen to a tree if...
The practice is called coppicing.
Not far from where we are they do this to a few eucalypts on a rotational and frequent basis to harvest the fresh new shoots as koala food for the park.
Long term if left unchecked what happens is that some of the shoots die off, some live, some get torn off etc.
They do grow into more slender eucs, growing off an old usually rotting stump.
I've worked on trees like this where say in 30 years time what you see is maybe 5 trunks going down to the ground in a group. Then a closer inspection shows the tell tale circular fashion of the trunks. The tree is slender and definately looks different.
Sometimes these trunks are strong and solid and many times not.
I dont have pics off hand but will keep an eye out. |