Coppicing

As coppice is referred to the case of trees and shrubs shoots that ( is then also called "stick" ) after the loss of the primary shoot axis re- sprout from the stump. The ability of this regeneration, most shrubs, but also some species of deciduous trees (eg alder, willow, poplar, hornbeam, oak, lime ) and a few conifer species (eg yew, coast redwood ).

Sometimes also the rooting of cuttings of wood in the woods replication or of biogenic fascines in hydraulic engineering or the further growth of felled stem residues ( stem cuttings ) is called coppicing.

Sleeping Eye

The shoots of the stick deflection form of so-called dormant buds of the remaining root residue. This phenomenon occurs especially after a winter precipitation. Since trees from coppice usually have only inferior trunk quality, the coppice is used only in short-rotation plantations as well as in forestry is no longer current coppice.

" Sit on the floor"

Linear hedges in the open fields that were created for wind protection or ownership demarcation (Wall hedge or kink ) as well as water concomitantly be set from time to time on the floor, so cut back to the floor and forced to coppice to keep the hedge tightly. Especially the wind screen depends on the hedges not verkahlen at the bottom.