Girdling
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title:
Girdling
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Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the circumferential removal or injury of the bark of a branch or trunk of a woody plant. Girdling prevents the tree from sending nutrients from its foliage to its roots, resulting in the death of the tree over time, and can also prevent flow of nutrients in the other direction depending on how much of the xylem is removed. A branch completely girdled will fail and when the main trunk of a tree is girdled, the entire tree will die, if it cannot regrow from a
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Removal of the bark from around the entire circumference
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girdling
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2024-04-25T07:15:51Z
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