Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees

Page numbers in parentheses. Italics are my own questions of the text.

Chapter 11 Notes

Chapter 10 Notes             Chapter 9 Notes      Chapter 8 Notes

Chapter 7 Notes               Chapter 6 Notes      Chapter 5 Notes

Chapters 3 & 4 Notes      Chapter 2 Notes      Foreword, Introductions, and Chapter 1 Notes

Chapter 12 Mighty Oak or Mighty Wimp?

beeches

• central europe is their home (69)

• harass other species

• how?

• jay buries beechnut by an oak

• seed sprouts

• sapling grows upwards

• oak provides shade

• beech roots

• penetrate every inch of space oak roots not using

• soak up oak’s water

• after 150 years

• grows into crown of oak

• extends crown

• catches 97% of light

• oak starves

• desperately tries to grow leaves at base of trunk

• oak

• tough with no competition (70)

• oaks can last 500 years outside the forest

• beeches need the forest – can only last 200 years

• wounds or cracks in trunk:

• protected with tannins (71)

• discourage fungi growth

• branches broken

• can grow replacement crown

• thick bark

• beeches are thin-skinned (72)