Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1434/en

After germination, the oak sends its taproot down into the depths, followed by lateral or heart roots that likewise penetrate to great depths. From these, powerful lateral roots strike out horizontally in all directions, which in turn drive so-called sinker roots down into the depths at their periphery. Fully grown, the oak forms — as a mirror image to its wide-spreading crown — a kind of equally mighty "root crown" into the depths of the earth. Its