Fire adaptations
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Fire adaptations are traits of plants and animals that help them survive wildfire or to use resources created by wildfire. These traits can help plants and animals increase their survival rates during
Ecological succession after a wildfire in a boreal pine forest next to Hara Bog, Lahemaa National Park, Estonia. The pictures were taken one and two years after the fire.
An example of thick bark
An example of epicormic sprouting
A basal lignotuber
Epicormic shoot
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An epicormic shoot is a shoot growing from an epicormic bud, which lies underneath the bark of a trunk, stem, or branch of a plant.
Epicormic shoots sprouting vigorously from epicormic buds beneath the bushfire damaged bark on the trunk of a Eucalyptus tree
Epicormic shoot on Callistemon, showing the fragility of the attachment before the parental wood has grown thick enough to supply a deep, firm attachment
Pseudotsuga macrocarpa showing branch regeneration after a crown fire through epicormic shoots. Note the charred tree trunks.
Banksia attenuata resprouting from epicormic buds following a bushfire