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This is the theoretical British definition. The Australian definition of; a 
sucker is young growth (usually of Eucalyptus), whether springing from root or stem. 
(2) It is amusing for an Australian to he told this of Eucalypts. IIow happy 
would pastoralists and others be if such were the case ! It may be largely true of a 
Eucalyptus plantation in a foreign land. 
The definition of Coppice is :— 
Coppice Forest or Copse. —The trees consists of stool-shoots or root-suckers, which are cut over 
periodically, either close to the ground or at some distance from it, every succeeding crop being created in 
the same way. (Schlich i. 10.) 
Turning to a definition of “stool ” we have :— 
Stool means that part which remains in the ground after a tree has been felled close to the ground. 
It comprises the whole of the root system and the lower end of the stem up to the point where it emerges 
from the ground, or a short distance (generally a few inches) above the surface. (Schlich i. 7.) 
In other words, a coppice shoot is a shoot from a root or from a stem— i.e ., a 
short stocky stem, the remains of a greater portion which has been already cut off. 
So that, to find fault with the use of the term “sucker” because it is stated to 
belong to the root exclusively, and at the same time to recommend the use of the 
term “ coppice shoot,” which is really a stem shoot, lands the authors on the horns 
of a dilemma. 
(4) I object to the word “ slang” as applied to the Australian term “ sucker.” 
This word is one of many which in English-speaking countries, such as America 
and Australia, are departing, more or less, from the meaning of the same word in 
the mother-land. I have shown that the use of the term is not incorrect. It is 
certainly not slang, and it is in universal use over hundreds of thousands of square 
miles. 
(5) I see no advantage in the use of a clumsy and vague term, such as “early 
or first foliage.” The earliest or first foliage is that of cotyledon leaves. These are 
succeeded by that foliage which may be termed “ seedling leaves,” and which are, 
morphologically, precisely similar to sucker leaves, while both seedling and sucker 
foliage develop into the mature leaves. 
To the use of the term “ sucker foliage,” alike for the young leaves of root 
suckers and of growths from the stem, I can see no objection. Because the seedling 
foliage is, as has been indicated, morphologically similiar, Australians, botanists, 
and others, often in practice use the term “ sucker foliage ” for this also to save the 
trouble of endeavouring to ascertain the origin of the shoot, whether from a seed or 
from a root. The term “ seedling foliage” is, of course, the correct expression in 
the former case. 
Fruit.- -Note the shape cf the fruit, which is often like a small form of the 
Bloodwood {E. corymbosa). Note the tubercular prominences which are often seen 
on the fruit. 
