Exposed roots.

[weimedog]

Saw a thread in a forum for landscapers... "exposed roots" and folks were showing pictures of beautiful trees with exposed roots. Could NOT help myself, I confess. Was digging out stumps as part of a job yesterday and when I saw that thread had to post this

[SwampDonkey]

Up here, darned white spruce is not a great yard tree. They send anchor roots practically on top of the ground and of course over time they swell with growth into larger ones making mowing a little rough. 

I don't see this habit with Colorado Blue or pines.

[Magicman]

Our principle exposed root tree here is the ornamental Crepe Myrtle. 

@Jeff has a really good picture.

[Brad_bb]

Won't cutting those surface roots of a tree kill the tree?  Maybe I'm not understanding the post?

[mudfarmer]

Yellow Birch here really likes to spread nice surface roots even in nice deep soil. It likes to grow on rocks, stumps and other tall things so it makes sense.

For years my principal exposed root tree is like weimedog's, dug up, hawthorn 

[Magicman]

We don't have rocks, but Beech roots love to expose themselves:

[SwampDonkey]

I have an acre of yellow birch that is 20 years old. No exposed roots here. Growing on ground that was dominated by sugar maple with scattered Y birch and other hardwoods, hemlock, red spruce and W. pine before land was cleared.

[SwampDonkey]

Apparently, in New York, beech root sucker a lot. They don't seem to do that here. I was on a field day/course one time and pulled on what was said to be suckers, was stand alone seedlings.   

[mudfarmer]

Yes can't forget the beech, and they do root sucker here at my place but seems like only after roots get disturbed?

Exposed 

[thecfarm]

That should give you some more beech.
Seem like beech is like  aspen, cut one, you get a 1000.