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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Some of the wild fruits have a suckering-spreading expansive habit, so we're 
still
on-topic!

I've seen undisturbed clonal patches of staghorn (& we have another common one
here--Rhus glabra) gradually relocate themselves.  Also, they eventually give 
up if
they just aren't allowed to go anywhere and are never cut.  (I believe the 
same
think happens with black-locust, but it takes 100 years so how does an 
ammateur
prove that?!)  I bet the roots eventually get diseases or deplete the soil, or
something.  That's why the roots seek new ground.  

Don't cut it, mow (or herbicide) the perimeter, and take a picture of the 
clone same
date every year.


--- "Lon J. Rombough" <> wrote:

> Staghorn sumac has some of the best fall color I've seen, but boy howdy 
> does it sucker.



      
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