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Ivy covered tree
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from Alan Gould contains these words: In article , Janet Baraclough writes This is nonsense. Ivy is not a parasitic plant, and does not obtain its food or water from trees, any more than it does from walls; it gets those through its own below-ground root system. If you sever climbing ivy stems at the base of a tree trunk, the entire section of ivy *above* the cut will die; proving that the living tree is not its means of sustenance. It is not a "scavenger". You are confusing the definitions of parasite and scavenger. Not at all. A parasite derives its subsistence from another living organism and a scavenger from a dead one. I was pointing out the reasons why your two claims, first that ivy attacks living trees, sets about to harm and kill them, and second that it scavenges their dead remains, are both wrong. Note to the confused; that's "wrong" as in "false, inaccurate, incorrect." Janet. |
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