Conjoining Trees for the Provision of Living Architecture in Future Cities: A Long-Term Inosculation Study.

ABSTRACT: Faced with the environmental challenges posed by climate change, architects are creating nature-based solutions for urban areas, such as transforming living trees into artificial architectural structures. In this study, we have analyzed stem pairs of five tree species conjoined for more than eight years by measuring the stem diameters below and above the resulting inosculation and by calculating the respective diameter ratio. Our statistical analyses reveal that Platanus × hispanica and Salix alba stems do not differ significantly in diameter below inosculation. However, in contrast to P. × hispanica, the diameters of the conjoined stems above inosculation differ significantly in S. alba. We provide a binary decision tree based on diameter comparis

SUBMITTER: Mylo MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10058916 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature