“You do realize that your pic makes trees net emitters of carbon.”
It doesn’t. It shows the other half of the cycle that was omitted in the post I responded to.
“Where do new branches come from, if the tree is always losing carbon?”
During repiration, the play generates the energy to turn the glucose into plant cellular matter.
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Missed the earlier post; with that comment your pic now makes sense.