TL;DR
Lion-tailing is the harmful pruning practice of stripping a limb's interior branches and foliage so that growth remains only in a tuft at the tip. It overloads branch ends, encourages weakly attached sprouts, removes the taper that dampens wind movement, and raises the odds of limb failure in storms.
What it means
Lion-tailing is the harmful pruning practice of stripping a limb's interior branches and foliage so that growth remains only in a tuft at the tip. It overloads branch ends, encourages weakly attached sprouts, removes the taper that dampens wind movement, and raises the odds of limb failure in storms. ANSI A300 pruning standards treat it as a defect, so its presence in past work is a red flag when vetting a tree service.
Where it sits in the glossary
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Why Ohio homeowners should know it
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