If you wonder why: some trees (especially needle-bearing) protect the base of their branches with resins and the like to protect precious trunkwood from rotting. If a branch dies and rots this way he cannot infect the whole tree.
edit: thank you for all the kind gold and interest in trees check comments below for more information. I struggle to find reliable informative online sources on the topic, anybody got some nice tree-biology sites? If you want to go further check out the Books of Alex Shigo.
nettiegull on November 11st, 2017 at 12:19 UTC »
I had no idea branches were structured within the trunk like that! Neato!
flying_avocado_butt on November 11st, 2017 at 13:42 UTC »
If you wonder why: some trees (especially needle-bearing) protect the base of their branches with resins and the like to protect precious trunkwood from rotting. If a branch dies and rots this way he cannot infect the whole tree.
edit: thank you for all the kind gold and interest in trees check comments below for more information. I struggle to find reliable informative online sources on the topic, anybody got some nice tree-biology sites? If you want to go further check out the Books of Alex Shigo.
CNCgcode on November 11st, 2017 at 14:32 UTC »
"But the branches remain"
Sounds like a metalica song made when they are senior citizens