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Logically, the top of the tree always the top of the tree, and the tree grows from the ground up, right?

Well then why are there trees that look like this, and are so wispy and staggered at the top?

You can’t tell me that the tree looked like this when it was born. There’s something else going on. What?

More exposed to the wind

So wind erosion peels the bark off the tree to make it smaller?

Trees only grow from the roots and shoots, my g.

They maneuver and communicate through the roots like a network.

@plants explain

Look up who that trees uncle is and it'll all make sense.

“Trees grow in height as a result of meristems that are located at their branch tips. These meristems are called apical meristems. Roots also expand through the soil by growing at their tips as a result of apical meristems. All buds that you see on a tree contain apical meristems. Trunk diameter growth occurs as a result of another meristem already mentioned called the vascular cambium. The vascular cambium produces new xylem and phloem each year and as a result the trunk, branches and roots continue to increase in diameter. Have you ever seen a fence wire or board grown into a tree?

That is the result of the vascular cambium. The fence wire or board doesn't rise into the air because height growth doesn't occur out of the ground, it only occurs from the branch tips.” - from dendro.cnre.vt.edu/Forsite/howdoes.htm

come on man you think any of us know what a xylem or a phloem is?

OK but look at the top of the tree. It's way too wispy. He didn't look like that when he was born, something has changed

dumb ass thread

Answer it then smartass

Honestly bet you cannot answer it

you drop a seed and water it f***ing moron

Exactly the answer I expected
This isn't what I'm talking about man

This is a dendrology forum at heart

how else would it grow then? hot sauce nigga?

because while growing from the ground up it simultaneously grows branches throughout as well

Just look at the branches and it imagine it looking like that when it was a baby. It's not just the trunk growing upward. Something else has to be happening when the tree grows

This makes sense
However my theory is that the tree grows downward

you gotta be unemployed

Look at your window for 15 minutes before going on your phone and I guarantee you'll have a bit of lubrication for your brain

Trees also grow in diameter. The higher the tree..the larger the trunk.

Plants absorb nutrients from the roots
The closer it is to the roots, the easier it is to absorb nutrients.
The further it is from the roots, the more deprived of nutrients it becomes over time.
In the beginning, the “top” of the tree is closest to the roots so it is very healthy. But they don’t retain those nutrients their entire life, and those leaves will wither away as the tree becomes taller it is not as many nutrients reaching it, which is why the base trunks and lowest branches are the most “full”.