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yes, one tree with multiple trunks. Many trees will drop their leaves annually, then recreate new leaves next spring. Turns out the spruce can do this with its
by elygre 4y ago
yes, one tree with multiple trunks. Many trees will drop their leaves annually, then recreate new leaves next spring. Turns out the spruce can do this with its entire trunk. I found it fascinating and enlightening, and learned something new.
- fancyfredbot 4y agoIANAB (B = botanist) but I believe that many species of tree can grow more than one trunk and that the spruce is not unusual in this respect.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoAspen trees do this.
- zrobotics 4y agoFor anyone in areas with Aspen trees, they are a single organism since they spread via roots. That is why you see groves of Aspen trees that seem to be sharply delineated, it's all one tree. Biology is just fascinating/scary like this, but knowing this makes the experience of standing in an aspen grove during the height of summer even more powerful. It's all one connected organism thst has spread so far that you can't see anything else of the mountain while standing in the middle of the grove.
- Fiahil 4y agoSee also : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
- bergenty 4y agoYes, most if not all trees can do this. It was a strategy called coppicing that allowed more lumber to be grown from the same root system.