- True “forest” trees share resources amongst each other via roots, equalizing what they produce
- Connectivity determines resource distribution
- Conifers produce every year where deciduous trees decide, together, each year if they will blossom the next year or not
- Oak and Beech trees create such masses of seeds that it affects the birth rates of foraging wildlife
- On average, each tree successfully produces one offspring during its life
- Tree canopies are so thick, seedlings can barely grow a stem and a few leaves
- Slow growth while young is necessary for strong, aged trees
- This keeps the wood cells tiny preventing air and fungus from breaking them
- If the tree is wider than tall, the tree is waiting patiently
- Saplings lack sugar and so are more bitter
- Trees on snowy slopes are pushed over by slowly moving snow while it continues to grow up, causing the truck to bow then straighten
- The same thing can happen where the ground is slipping
- Trees are constantly shedding bark, like we do skin cells
- The deeper the bark cracks, the more reluctant the tree is to shed its bark
- Chemical processes are managed by the roots
- Mites and weevils are critical for forest processing
- We are liberating CO2 faster than the debris accumulate
- Less CO2 = Longer tree life span
- We need to let trees grow old to capture maximum CO2
- Trees will morph their environment to suit there needs; for example, growing tall and thick blocks the wind which reduces evaporation and increases moisture
- Deciduous trees are designed to direct rain fall down the leaves, through the branches, down the trunk to their roots
- Inland rain falls are thanks to tree transpiration
- Fall color changes include the relocation of resources back to the trunk
- Oak and beeches need rest, which is why we cannot grow them inside
- Trees cannot sleep until their leaves are shed
- Quaking aspens have leaves that can photo synthesize on both sides
- Green light is rejected light that the chlorophyll cannot process
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