Seemingly treeless fields may contain seeds and living tree stumps and roots which have the ability to sprout new stems and regenerate trees. Even this ‘bare’ millet field in West Africa contains hundreds of living stumps per hectare which are buried beneath the surface like an underground forest.
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This picture is of a a bare millet field in west africa. There are actually hundreds of tree stumps buried underneath the surface in an 'underground forest'.
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