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Note: Smoke tree blooms on mature wood, so coppicing eliminates that year’s frothy pink flowers.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2023

This resprouting, or coppicing, could be an evolutionary response to attacks by elephants, who habitually snap or uproot trees.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2013

Whereas in the old traditional approach of coppicing, you could argue that the trees are kept short so they do not offer so much wind resistance.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2012

"The last remnants of active coppicing were also dying out, so the woods were getting into a fairly dark and shady state."

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2012

At the end of the fourth year some proprietors begin to collect the quill bark by the method of coppicing.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various