Sunday, March 15, 2009

silver linden













There's the trunk, and then there's the branches, but what do you call the place where the trunk becomes branches?

6 comments:

Matthew said...

Branch collar.

amarilla said...

You are not joking! Wow, I just learned a lot.

So, do some trees have ascots? I think I've seen that.

Old First said...

THanks for asking and thanks for answering.

Matthew said...

Only English trees sport ascots, and plummy-voiced dead conservatives like W. F. Buckley on this side of the puddle.

Marie said...

Rats, and I thought it was the crotch. It amuses me that certain trees, like some people, have weak crotches.

The callery pears are famous for it.

amarilla said...

Compelling! I have to look that up.

Both crotch and collar, those tricky trees. Is it correct to say that where a trunk divides you get trunk sections and a crotch, but where a trunk becomes a branch, you get a collar. Am I on the right track?