Thanks Varun ji 🙏 Informative! *Limonia acidissima's fruit pulp chatani is very tasty 😀, thanks to remind. * *How to control root growth without damaging tree's life and balance? Is there some guidance links or books etc?* *If we reduce canopy size, will there be adverse effect, like more root growth to compensate loss of branches and leaves?*
*Thanks* *Sharmila* On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:08 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the attached image this is misconception that roots do not grow out of > canopy area, but in search of water and nutrients plants develop large > horizontal roots. There are many examples like Ficus, Oak, Populus, > Leucaena, Prosopis etc. where horizontal roots develop 2-3 times or > farther. We have *Limonia acidissima* at our place where horizontal roots > have grown more than four times to its canopy spread. > > For getting any formula to calculate root spread, canopy and height of > tree its difficult, every plant of single species behaves differently with > ecological and environmental factors. > > Kind regards, > > Varun > > On Tue 22 May, 2018, 11:00 AM J.M. Garg, <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter pl >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Sharmila Punde <sharmilaflorain...@gmail.com> >> Date: Tue 15 May, 2018, 8:36 PM >> Subject: [efloraofindia:295078] Horizontal root spread under soil >> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >> >> >> Dear All, >> Please check attched picture. >> Please watch radius(Blue line) which indicate radius of 'horizontal >> root spread circle' under soil. Please inform if there is some equation >> between root spread, canopy size and >> height of the tree. >> I have seen rooted out big mango trees and many other big trees with >> very small 'horizontal root spread circle' , but people are still reluctant >> to plant big trees because of >> fear of root spread. >> >> >> Suppose we keep trimming adventitious roots of Ficus species, do ficus >> species has very big root spread under soil? >> >> Thanks >> Sharmila >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
