coppice

The epicormic shoots arising from the stump of a tree which give rise to a second- (or subsequent) generation multi-stemmed tree. An old coppice stump is a stool.

coppice with standards,
epicormic shoots,
lapsed coppice,
pollard,
short-rotation coppice (SRC),
stool,
stored coppice,
stump

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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