Plant Root System Drawings
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Plant Root System Drawings
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#2beautiful and informative
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#3Beautiful, but did they remove the trees with all its roots intact to draw? I’d like to know how they did it.
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#4I wonder if we are missing half of the tree. Moles can probably tell one tree species from another clearly by their roots, and will be surprised to learn their surface halves are also different.
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#5Beautiful, but did they remove the trees with all its roots intact to draw? I’d like to know how they did it.
I'm curious too. The descriptions has the heading of "excavated tree" dimensions, so it sounds like it was at least partially removed.
Unfortunately the original publication is not available. And even if it's back, I'm not sure I'd spend $1.9k to check... https://www.amazon.com/Mitteleuropaeischer-Gruelandpflanzen-...
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#6Beautiful, but did they remove the trees with all its roots intact to draw? I’d like to know how they did it.
It reminds me of the drawings by John E. Weaver from the thirties [1]. They were made by painstakingly digging a deep trench to study and sketch the roots. They did it multiple times for each crop to get a sense of how they develop in time.
[1]https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/root-devel...
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#7Beautiful, but did they remove the trees with all its roots intact to draw? I’d like to know how they did it.
I'm curious too. The descriptions has the heading of "excavated tree" dimensions, so it sounds like it was at least partially removed. Unfortunately the original publication is not available. And even if it's back, I'm not sure I'd spend $1.9k to check... https://www.amazon.com/Mitteleuropaeischer-Gruelandpflanzen-...
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#8Unfortunate that Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) are not in there. I always thought they would have a pretty fascinating root structure because of how separated they grow. Makes sense that it’s not in a Dutch database though!
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#9Each species has its own algorithm, it seems
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#10This is a great resource. The type of soil however impacts the root growth significantly, and unfortunately isn't mentioned in the drawings. Other than that this can be very helpful if you want incorporate root structure in the design of a polyculture system.