eli5 If you cut down a perfectly healthy tree, at what point would the tree be considered “dead”?

Question

I would assume the fallen tree would have enough nutrients to sustain itself for a while and would eventually start dying. Most living things are dying until they’re dead but what exactly is the threshold from dying to dead for a suddenly severed tree?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The stump might still be alive. I’ve chopped down a tree and a year later a sapling is growing out of the stump.