Re: Downed trees
Joe Seals wrote:
> I also suspect that there are a few trees that are
> inclined, no matter what, to send out emphatically
> "horizontal" root systems. These, too, seem
> wind-ignorant.
I would suspect that the shallow rooted eucs might do quite well against
the wind in their native habitat, if they grow in forests of eucs, which
is what we americans are led to believe from the photos we americans see
of Australia. Similarly, large stands of (shallow-rooted)
Sequoiadendron in California are unaffected by wind, because the whole
serves as a windbreak to the individual trees. Maybe some australian
botanists aboard can comment on this theory. Of course, this would not
apply to species that grow in isolated patches, if any.
