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Nov 9, 2023 4:44 AM CST
Name: stone
near Macon Georgia (USA) (Zone 8a)
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Lucy68 said: Trees that grow in a grove with other trees and shrubbery tend to form one canopy and root to hold up that canopy. If you take one tree out of the grove, it changes the dynamics of the entire grove. Other trees start falling too.


Wind is part of it...
But what I was talking about is where the supporting structure from the canopy is suddenly removed and the trunk isn't strong enough to support the top...

Those trees hold each other up...

You see it when planting saplings that have been limbed up...
Remove the stake and the trunk can't support the top... Those you can tie back up... those mature oaks... not so much.

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