From what I read those shoots that have grown up around the base of this tree near the ballfield in Prospect Park are called suckers. In many gardens I suppose they'd be cut back, so I'm glad the Park's Department has let this tree develop its curious and dramatic natural habit. I don't know what kind of tree this is, but I've noticed the bark is hypnotically groovy.
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Perhaps such a dense clump of suckers would protect the bark of the trunk from hungry deer, maybe that's how it evolved this habit with all that fringy glamor. Who needs a boa?
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