Either way, if its roots are pulled up from out of the ground as the tree topples over, then there's usually a big hole, a pit left in the ground where the roots used to be.

Sutures have a long and bizarre history, dating back to ancient Egypt, where everything from tree bark to hair was used to stitch human flesh back together again.

These are used to indicate a target element in the out going message assembly, where an acquired value should overwrite the existing value (in the case where the element already exists in the tree).