It is the centre of the tree. You marked the outside, like a tattoo. You only marked the bark. If someone gets a tattoo and they still grow and get new skin, it doesn't disappear. Neither do their muscles or blood get tattoo on them. If you cut off their skin the tattoo isn't there. See?
But I thought it grows in concentric circles (but on the reverse, inside, pushing away older concentric circles). They explain it, at least in this picture like layers upon layers form (hence the burned layer from the forest fire of 2011.) What if I wrote I <3 you on the bark right before the fire.
The dark inner wood is called the heart wood and does not grow. The sap wood is what grows. The oldest rings are in the center. It's like putting on a new layer of clothes, or make up or whatever. The oldest later is on the bottom. If it was growing from the center each year, the tree would shatter from the pressure. All of the nutrient transport takes place in the xylem and phloem, which make up the outer layers of sap wood and the layer just beneath the bark. That's why leaving anything tied around a tree is bad, because it will eventually strangle the tree.
No, I understand you people, and layer make up, this post confuses me. If you get cut, you'll have an abrasion, a hole on your face, with new layers of skin (and makeup). But pic shows "scar" from forest fire "trapped" between two rings, and letters got layered. It's not just a pic. I saw it in real life. A hole in between rings when tree was halfed. From fire, beavers or whatever. Layers cover my letters but not holes. I never saw my "I" more than one or two layers deep, even if I wrote it 7 years ago.
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· 7 years ago
What sort of layers are you meaning? Are you talking about rings, or bark? Think of a fire scar, or a pruning cut (a deep cut for the removal of a limb) as more of a surgical injury. The scar goes deeper, and can leave scar tissue, even if there's no scar on the surface.
Carving into the tree's bark is a surface wound, and usually stays on the bark. If you cut deep enough, then you damage the vascular tissue and might cause parts of the phloem to die.
Also, seven years is not very long. I've seen aspen with names carved in them from the late 1800s. It doesn't go away.
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Carving into the tree's bark is a surface wound, and usually stays on the bark. If you cut deep enough, then you damage the vascular tissue and might cause parts of the phloem to die.
Also, seven years is not very long. I've seen aspen with names carved in them from the late 1800s. It doesn't go away.