Older trees sometimes grow epicormic shoots directly from their trunks after storm or �re damage.
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"Pseudotsuga macrocarpa " showing branch regeneration after a crown fire through epicormic shoots.
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"Banksia ilicifolia " regenerates after bushfire by regrowing from epicormic shoots under its bark.
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"C . flavescens " has a lignotuber and will form an epicormic shoot in response to fire.
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"E . pauciflora " regenerates from seed, by epicormic shoots below the bark, and from lignotubers.
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They can, however, survive light fires, by regenerating from seed, or sometimes vegetatively from basal epicormic shoots.
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It was ringbarked by vandals in 1997, and it has responded by producing numerous epicormic shoots on its north side.
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The leaves of others died, while the trees survived and later produced epicormic shoots; as of mid-2009 many of these had also died.
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Care need to be taken to avoid epicormic shoots growing on trunks of surrounding trees such that they lead to knotty wood, if timber production is desired.
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The long-lived " Pseudotsuga menziesii " forms epicormic shoots not in response to damage but as a means of forming growth on existing branches.