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"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly) 12/22/2018 at 05:34 • Filed to: Goodnight Oppo

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Never give up...even when the bastards cut you off at the ankles.

Although...to be fair, this tree was near rotten to its core and had killed two cars and a truck. And I had no intention of letting it kill our new water tank.

Jayvincent > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 12/22/2018 at 10:57

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nice photo! A little cropping to remove said water tank, blow it up to a 24" diagonal and you have some nice wall art for a city apt dweller...

ttyymmnn > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 12/22/2018 at 12:16

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Yeah, but they call those things “suckers.”

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Jayvincent 12/22/2018 at 17:15

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Be my guest!

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ttyymmnn 12/22/2018 at 17:23

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Hmmm... technically, this is actually epicormic growth. Eucalypts like this have dormant epicormic buds in their bark throughout the tree and the respond quickly to fire and limb failure. Often a tree after fire looks like a fuzzy green stick!

Our ecologists are coming to realise that many of our forest Eucs  are far older  than they appear and even chemically date to as a result of this sort of growth

It’s my understanding that suckers launch from the roots like they do in apples and pears...?

ttyymmnn > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 12/22/2018 at 18:29

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Oh, I don’t know. I’m no arborist. I just know it’s what the tree guys call the things growing out of my silver maple.