Undead Tree Stump Is Being Kept Alive by Neighboring Trees

Gizmondo ^ | 25 july 2019 | George Dvorsky

[KingLudd]

Interesting book titled “The Secret Life of Trees” discussed previously here on FR. I really enjoyed reading it.

[TigersEye]

LOL That was a good one!

[minnesota_bound]

I must be a tree. People say I am a sap....

[Red Badger]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/10/18/the-worlds-largest-organism-pando-is-dying/#fb8dc2b5554c

[Red Badger]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/10/18/the-worlds-largest-organism-pando-is-dying/#fb8dc2b5554c

[DUMBGRUNT]

“Try to kill a tulip poplar by cutting it down to a stump.”

I can only wish that my beloved mulberry tree could return.

One sad day a woman from the local utility company enquired if they could trim my tree near the power lines, NOT ON OUR PROPERTY.
The secret female handshake and countersign were exchanged, and that is all she wrote.
Gone for the convenience of the utility company.
Three trucks, crawlers, hoists, man lifts, and six + workers... for three days.
And gone, but not forgotten.

The remaining 36”x40” stump is all that remains.

Critters from all over DuPage county used to visit for a late-night fruit snack. I tried not to bother them and ate mine by day.

[JeanLM]

“there’s a stand of Aspen in the North West that is, as a single organism, among the oldest living things on earth.”

And it’s male looking for a female. No tranies in trees.

Read Richard Power’s “Overstory” Lots of good tree stuff in there.

[TigersEye]

My favorite Penicillium is roqueforti. I recently saw an article about a study that said people who eat a lot of blue cheese have less heart problems than people who don’t. I now start every day with a spoonful of Blue Cheese or Gorgonzola.

Perhaps I will be colonized by Penicillium roqueforti fungus.

[trisham]

I love blue cheese.

[TigersEye]

Luckily I do too! If it were a little less expensive I’d eat more of it.

[trisham]

I hear you. :)

[Paladin2]

“I think that I shall never hear/

A poem as lovely as a beer/

That drink Joe’s bar has on tap/

With golden base and snowy cap/

I drink that golden stuff all day/Until my memory melts away/

Poems are made by fools, I fear/

But only Schlitz can make a beer.”

- MAD Magazine

[Utah Binger]

This old guy (Cottonwood)here on the property is at least 150 years old. Unfortunately we had to cut back all the dead limbs last year for safety reasons. Now this year she is growing lots of new growth.

[gundog]

I saw one Doug Fir that was healing. I haven’t been up there to check on it in years, though.

[tired&retired]

Quite common

[headstamp 2]

Reminds me of the Little Rascals Episode “Arbor Day” where Alfalfa sings it.

[TigersEye]

I was expecting the attribution to be Norm Peterson.

[headstamp 2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGONkkyp4Zw

[steve86]

My mulberry tree is a real nuisance dropping fruit and nothing eats the berries but the tree is attractive and provides lots of shade so it stands.

[DUMBGRUNT]

nothing eats the berries

I used to put a critter cam under the mulberry, I had an Ok photo of a possum with babies on her back, a bazillion skunks, coons, a few coyotes...

And a friends mother used to make mulberry pie!

But the dog’s feet did occasionally turn purple?