Tree with number of suckers. Photo found at: http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4DMG/Trees/stump.htm.

Peach tree with sucker at base. Photo provided by: Rob Flynn, Bugwood.org.

Ash tree with a sucker. Emerald ash borers will cause ash trees to produce suckers. Photo by: Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources – Forestry Archive, , Bugwood.org.

Ash tree with many suckers. Notice this tree has been attacked by emerald ash borer. In the photo the brown area on the tree is where bark was pulled away to reveal the serpentine tunneling of the emerald ash borer larvae. Photo by: Michigan Department of Agriculture, Bugwood.org.