pipe theory
The speculative proposition attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that ‘All the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk’. The method in BS 5837 (2012) for calculating the root protection area of a multi-stem tree recalls this proposition.
This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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