3rd May 2008, 11:48 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host
I do believe we are getting to the basis of the original question... and intersting it is / was in getting there.
A tree bole is (at least this is my definition... so I expect it to change in the next few posts!)
A bole is indeed another name for the trunk of a tree.. different from branch and crown however you also have the root bole... which is what I think you are reffering to, which is the same but underground - therefore a root bole is the solid part of the tree which is subsurface before it 'branches' out into a lateral root system. So from top to bottom (simplified) you have a Crown
Tree Bole
Root Bole
Root system
when a tree crashes to the ground, or is removed..for example then the hole formed by this is actually the area of the root bole.. the root system basically remaining in the ground.
So I would describe a hole that is evidence for a tree formally standing in that location as a root bole hole..
Agreed, or to simplify "root bole hole" = tree throw.
One of my bugbears is reading context sheets where a tree throw has been described as a tree bole when no evidence of the bole was ever found.
edit: typos