

CHAPTER VII 



NATURAL REGENERATION : REGENERATION BY COPPICE 



(a) Regeneration from Stool-shoots. We have seen 

 earlier, under definitions, that stool-shoots are shoots 

 which have sprung from the stool of a tree after the 

 latter has been cut down. These shoots may develop 

 either from " dormant" or from " adventitious" buds. 



Dormant buds are axillary buds which, in ordinary 

 conditions, remain alive without sprouting, but which 

 may develop into shoots in certain circumstances, such 

 as by removal of the existing foliage, or by exposure of 

 the woody axis to direct 

 sunlight. Adventitious 

 buds are all those which 

 originate in any other 

 place than the axils of 

 the leaves. 



Probably the greater 

 majority of stool-shoots 

 are due to dormant buds. 

 Young stool-shoots from 

 dormant buds can usu- 

 ally be distinguished 

 from those from adven- 

 titious buds, as they 

 sprout outside the cir- FlG 68 



cumference of the stool, 



while the latter usually spring from a swelling (or 

 callus) produced over the cambium on the top of the 



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