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Old 4th January 2008, 12:34 PM   #16 (permalink)
mdvaden
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Default Re: What will happen to a tree if...

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Originally Posted by newguy18 View Post
Thats cool how those trees grew on top of a log.
Just to make sure, you realize that those are not trees growing on top of a log - as in a nurse log situation - but the trunks + the log are one tree. It's one big organism: top to bottom, stream bank to stream bank.

Compare it to this image. On this image, you can see that the tree is rooting into a separate fallen and dead redwood.

But in the previous image, the trunks / leaders flare out and are integrated with their horizontal living trunk.
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