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Tree Trunks Lean Away From Buildings

Tree trunks lean away from the shade of buildings and towards the light.

This habit tends to override the normal biases towards southern light, because it is always darker in the shade of buildings, even when that side is south.

In the video above, we are looking west, south is to the left and north is to the right. The london plane trees still lean to the north, right, because there is more light on the side of the road than the buildings.

For more tree patterns like this please see my book, How to Read a Tree.

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