Parts of a tree

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:44:03 GMT

NewWarning to all who use a weed eater, trimmer or anything else around your tree: If you trim off the bark and cut into the phloem of the tree all the way around it with your trimmer you can easily kill your tree if you haven't done it already because nutrients cannot go up the tree. Paragraph

Layers of a tree and How it tree grows

Tree parts

Crown- The crown part of the tree is the top part of the tree consisting of leaves and branches. The leaves take in the sun’s light or energy. It takes this energy and converts the carbon dioxide and water and nutrients from the ground to produce food for the tree. Oxygen is a byproduct and is released back into the atmosphere for you and I to breath.

Roots- of course you know what the roots are. The part of the tree underground. The roots functions soak up water and nutrients from the ground. These nutrients travel up the tree.

Trunk- This part of the tree has 4 parts or layers under the bark. 1), the phloem 2 ) the cambium 3) the xylem 4) the heart wood

Phloem- This part of the trunk is just behind the bark. This is the part of the tree that carries the processed food from the leaves to the rest of the tree through microscopic tube like cells in the tree.

Cambium- This part of the tree produces either phloem xylem or more cambium. It is sort of like our human body. Our human body produces different cells all the time to keep us going. This cambium is also what produces growth rings in the tree.

Xylem- This part of the layer of the tree is what brings water and nutrients from the ground up to the leaves and different parts of the tree. As the tree gets bigger or older the older xylem cells become inactive which forms part of the heartwood.

Heartwood- As informed in the xylem text the heartwood is formed through the dead xylem cells.

Bark- This part of the tree comes from the phloem part of the layer of the tree that becomes inactive as the tree gets older or bigger.

Should I cut down my tree?

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 22:32:55 GMT

Some may wonder whether they should cut down their tree or not. The fact of the matter it really depends on what you want. But if the tree is dead then yes you should get it down. If it falls and damages something or worse yet, hurts someone you would be responsible for any damages. . Is it tearing up your driveway or home foundation. Then again yes you should remove the tree to protect the investment of your home. Maybe it is neither. Maybe it is that your tree wont let your grass grow. Some grasses grow good around trees. Or maybe you have a tree over a pool or screened in enclosure for a pool. Is it interfering with a fence line that you cant live with. Do you love your trees but they just keep making a mess. Sometimes trimming a tree can be the best option. You would still have some leaves though. Keep this in mind. If you have your trees trimmed, in most cases you should not get more than 1/3 of it trimmed off. A tree needs leaves to take in the sunlight that converts water in the tree and carbon dioxide from the air and turns it into food for the tree. A tree can still live If you cut all its branches off and left it like a cactus in a desert, but is it good for the health of the tree, No not really. Some trees will actually die.

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Parts of a tree

Layers of a tree and How it tree grows

Should I cut down my tree?