Quirky Quercus

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yummy!!

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this true to some extent? I’ve always lived in places where oaks aren’t natives or abundant

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Many trees can regrow quite drastically when cut back. Even stumps resprout in various tree species. But fungal infections can really take a toll on trees, so any wound is certainly a risk. So there is some truth to the meme, it is just hyperbolic.

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    • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair but since the meme was pointing at oaks I was wondering if they had a reputation for being susceptible to root damage

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  • BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Roots are more or less the life blood of a tree, and while small damage by itself won’t kill it (to my knowledge) it opens it up way more severely to pests and “infection”, promptly killing the plant.

    *I’m not a botanist, this is an answer based off of my “common knowledge”.

    Please use this for better sources or salted information: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak

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    • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes but the implication here is that oaks are in particular much more susceptible to damage from roots than other trees. Hence my question

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• Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ohohohoh do cypress trees next lol

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