A few parts remain trapped inside the growing trunk.
As Andy Oates said to me, such an abstraction 'becomes simpler (or at least more satisfying) than an increasingly large genetic regulatory network, which starts to grow trunks at alarming angles'.
In the case of liana-scratch, affordances might include the fact that pushing/pulling on a liana makes it rigid, more like a growing tree-trunk that the body can be rubbed against.
Every part of a growing tree root, trunk, bark, leaf, flowers, and seeds is potentially subject throughout every stage of its life to attack by some harmful insect or fungus.
She just had to open the book and she would become by turns every character inside those pages: she was Rudyard Kipling telling the tale; she was the Camel acquiring his hump, the Rhinoceros getting his skin, the Elephant's Child growing his trunk – by Crocodile means – and she was the Cat that Walked by Himself.
White lichen that grows on trunks of rainforest trees serves as a useful signpost, pointing them toward safe territory.
Researchers planned to use genetic engineering to make the poplars grow wider trunks and to increase their proportion of cellulose to lignin.
In Hawaii, it grows on trunks of fallen Cibotium and Aleurites trees.
It grows on trunks and stumps of deciduous trees in tropical and subtropical rainforests and could be artificially cultivated on various agricultural residues [ 10].
The plant consists of a monocaulous trunk growing from a stigmarian rhizomorph, the trunk bearing biseriate, sub-opposite to possibly alternate lateral branches that expand by means of isotomous to slightly anisotomous dichotomies, forming an excurrent canopy.
Among the shelf or bracket fungi growing from tree trunks is the oyster cap, Pleurotus ostreatus, so called because of its appearance.
