Terms unique to arboriculture

two unique terms that come to mind: Included bark
Drop crotch

You can’t just tell someone that their tree has co-dominate stems with included bark and needs drop crotch pruning. Have to be much more careful with the verbiage.
 
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evo said:
Pet peeves?

Codominate is one of mine.

What’s yours?
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Codominate ... that has to do with canopy architecture, it means that two branchesare fighting to become the top, right?

What's the English word for the other type of dominance? In Dutch, I believe, it's 'apicale dominantie' meaning that the trunk/topsuppresses the growth of side limbs.

(I like knowing the right, unique Dutch word for arboriculture things. Knowing them in English is challenging.)
 
Suuz said:
Codominate ... that has to do with canopy architecture, it means that two branchesare fighting to become the top, right?

What's the English word for the other type of dominance? In Dutch, I believe, it's 'apicale dominantie' meaning that the trunk/topsuppresses the growth of side limbs.

(I like knowing the right, unique Dutch word for arboriculture things. Knowing them in English is challenging.)
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Here in arboriculture ‘codominate’ is used to refer to a stem bifurcation, a union with a narrow attachment and two trunks of near equal diameter. Often a weak attachment with compressed bark in the union. Using this term often requires a lot of other description to avoid confusion. ‘Codominate union with included bark and weak structure’, or ‘Codominate stem with a wide angle of attachment’.
Yet dominance infers that both stems are competing to become the leading stem. This is where the issue arises, are they actually competing? Then again with stems of dissimilar size, with included bark and weak attachment..,

The term is also used in forestry but differently meaning a stand of trees nearly all equal in height.

And then there is the botany definition, which simply means the individual tree is expressing two different traits, like hybrids or the like.

In genetics it’s typically referred to a mutation, and when you cross two Codominates you get a dominant form. One example can be piebalds (there are recessive forms too) and when two piebalds cross the dominate form is nearly all white.

Apical Dominance is a hormonal growth regulation. Or form of a trees structural characteristic. Often when apical dominance is lost stems become bifurcated or ‘Codominate’.
 
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