Southwest Ohio. Is the tree really still making leaves or is it baby trees growing on the rotten branch of a rotten tree? (What will they do when they get bigger?)
Southwest Ohio. Is the tree really still making leaves or is it baby trees growing on the rotten branch of a rotten tree? (What will they do when they get bigger?)
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If you look on the left side of that tree in photo 2 you can see that there are actually still living layers to that tree (the bark, the phloem underneath, the cambium under that and then the sapwood) which will move nutrients, water, and energy to and from the canopy (leaves) and roots.
A a mammal or bird may still organs that continue to function and plenty of living cells for a while after its brain gets mushed or the heart stops, but it would be dead. As an organism a tree is not completely dead until ALL living tissue is completely dead. Like I have little log chunks/sticks partially buried in wood chips that had new shoots this spring – if some roots manage to take hold then it could theoretically just keep growing and become a new tree even if it grows in a weird messed up way.
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If you look on the left side of that tree in photo 2 you can see that there are actually still living layers to that tree (the bark, the phloem underneath, the cambium under that and then the sapwood) which will move nutrients, water, and energy to and from the canopy (leaves) and roots.
A a mammal or bird may still organs that continue to function and plenty of living cells for a while after its brain gets mushed or the heart stops, but it would be dead. As an organism a tree is not completely dead until ALL living tissue is completely dead. Like I have little log chunks/sticks partially buried in wood chips that had new shoots this spring – if some roots manage to take hold then it could theoretically just keep growing and become a new tree even if it grows in a weird messed up way.