Tree stump
（重定向自Stump removal）
![Tree stump, about 37 years after falling](/Images/godic/202502/13/Tree_stump1_30u060424.JPG")
![stump sculpture by German artist Eberhard Bosslet](/Images/godic/202502/13/Bosslet_-_Stump_Stools_at_Albertinum_Dresden0424.jpg")
![A freshly cut tree stump, 2 hours after cutting](/Images/godic/202502/13/Freshly_cut_tree_stump0425.jpg")
![young spruce (picea) on stump - saprobiontic](/Images/godic/202502/13/Junge_Fichte_auf_Baumstumpf_-_young_picea_on_stump_-_Saprobiont0425.jpg")
After a tree has been cut and felled, the stump or tree stump is usually a small remaining portion of the trunk with the roots still in the ground. Stumps may show the age-defining rings of a tree. The study of these rings is known as dendrochronology.