how is this tree also like a million 47,000 trees over 106 acres
there's a broken-down stump of what I think used to be a birch tree on our property, and the tree is still alive and has spread itself over a good fraction of the backyard's surface area because the roots have sent out "suckers"—fresh shoots coming up from the invisible root mass of the tree, which is still very much alive even if the main trunk has fallen apart—and so our yard has thousands of little birch trees coming up everywhere that are, in fact, all part of the same tree.
it might be one of the oldest living things on the property, come to think of it. ~Chara
