- Salt pruning
Salt pruning is the process by which saline mists generated by seawater are driven ashore by winds to alter the shape of trees or shrubs over considerable times throughout the growth cycle of the affected plant. The process of salt pruning selectively degrades foliage and branches on the windward side of the plant facing the body of saline water. The resultant growth form is an asymmetrical plant form, swept back away from the ocean.
Examples
There are numerous examples worldwide of this phenomenon. In the eastern USA on
Long Island occurrences of salt pruned "Quercus stellata " are observed in Flax Marsh. [Mineral Science Institute, 2005] InSan Diego County ,California a colony of "Pinus torreyana " is found where salt spray driven mist from thePacific Ocean has shaped many Torrey Pines via salt pruning. [C.M.Hogan, 2008]ee also
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Lone Cypress Line notes
References
* Mineral Science Institute (2005) [http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu:8080/FlaxPondDigitalLibrary/FlaxPond/index.html]
* C.Michael Hogan (2008) "Torrey Pine: "Pinus torreyana", Globaltwitcher, ed. Nicklas Stromberg [http://www.globaltwitcher.com/artspec.asp?thingid=62498]
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