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From: rhunt@med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Cancer in plants?
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Date: 25 Apr 91 17:17:37 GMT
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In article <210@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
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>elevated bush.  Berkeley has entire groves of Western Sycamore pruned in
>this way - it makes for an odd sort of high hedge.
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>Now if the tree you saw was 'wild' I am probably off base.
>-- 
>uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)

The tree in question was indeed a wild tree, right at the edge of the
woods near my apartment complex.  There are however some landscaped trees
nearby and this tree may have been attacked by a mad landscaper in a
bizarre experiment. :-)  My guess is that it has not been pruned or
otherwise molested, but I can't be sure.

I was also under the impression that the knots and bumps on trees were
caused by insects or other parasites and fungi.  This is in response to
another posting on the subject.

Does the cell wall of plants make them resistant or immune to cancer?

Rick Hunt
rhunt@med.unc.edu