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New Stool Shoots From a 20‐Year‐Old Swamp‐Mahogany Eucalyptus Stump
Author(s) -
Wold Myron L.,
Lanner Ronald M.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1935023
Subject(s) - swamp , eucalyptus , shoot , biology , crown (dentistry) , myrtaceae , botany , horticulture , ecology , medicine , dentistry
A stump of swamp—mahogany eucalyptus (Eucalyptus robusta Sm.) near Hilo, Hawaii, produced sprouts more than 20 years after it was cut. Examination showed that the stump was being kept alive by root grafts from a nearby tree. Production of the stool shoots may have been triggered by storm damage to the nearby tree. This damage may have stopped the flow of growth inhibitors from the crown of the tree of the living stump through the root grafts.