MEHAK BANSAL

GCAD/15/314
TREE OR NOT TREE
• TREE-The dictionary defines it as a woody plant with a trunk from
which branches grow.
• Apart from heavy grown trees, there are some dwarf trees usually
termed as arctic shrubby birch, that are usually ignored by
people as they grow upto a height of max. 10”
• These trees are usually ignored by people.

DOES A TREE DIE ?

• Trees never die, they give a life even after they are being cut,
one of the example will be a process called coppicing.
• Coppicing is a traditional method of wood cutting which exploits
the capacity of many species of trees to put out new shoots from
their stumps or roots if cut down American Dwarf Birch Tree
• The oldest spruce in Dalarna has grown a carpet of
flat shrubby growth around its single small trunk.
• The spruce to be an absolutely unbelievable
9,550 years old. The individual shoots were
young but these new growths from the past
few centuries were not considered to be
stand-alone trees but part of a larger whole

Process of coppicing
 ROOTS-BRAIN OF A TREE

• Roots absorb substances and bring them into the tree

• It is now an accepted fact that the root network is in charge of all
chemical activity in the tree.
• Roots absorb substances and bring them into the tree.
If the root encounters toxic substances, impenetrable stones, or saturated
soil ,it analyse the situation and transmits the necessary adjustments to
the growing tip.
• It is now an accepted fact that the root network is in charge of all
chemical activity in the tree