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"Girdling root"
Keywords:
encircles
,
trunk
,
photosynthates
,
buttress
,
root
Related Terms:
Root collar
,
Creeper
,
Layering
,
Lignotuber
,
Scion
,
Sucker
,
Suckers
,
Rootstock
,
Crown
,
Stolons
,
Chamaephyte
,
Vine
,
Taproot
,
Aerial roots
,
Adventitious roots
,
Graft
,
Rootbound
,
Crown
,
Tap root
,
Rhizomes
,
Air layering
,
Fibrous roots
,
Bud union
,
Rhizome
,
Fibrous root
,
Bare-root
,
Runner
,
Epicormic
,
Stock
,
Adventitious
,
Bole
,
Stoloniferous
,
Bare root
,
Grafting
,
Basal rosette
,
Stolon
,
Fibrous root system
,
Liana
,
Root pruning
,
Caudex
,
Root
,
Velamen
,
Root ball
,
Tree
,
Turion
,
Geophyte
,
Emergent plant
,
Turf
,
Monopodial
,
Root cap
Physical evidence that a root is directly impacting another root or stem. The physical evidence would be compression of woody tissues of another root or stem by encircling roots that have contacted the stem or root.
extension.umn.edu
a root that encircles the trunk and the tree basically chokes itself
arboristsite.com
root growing around part of the trunk, restricting its expansion.
tlcfortrees.info
A root that has grown so that it encircles and constricts other roots or the main stem of a tree. May result in the decline or death of the tree.
forestry.ky.gov
root that partially or entirely encircles the trunk and/or large buttress roots, which could restrict growth and downward movement of photosynthates.
ufei.org
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