This is called inosculation: when branches or roots of different trees are in prolonged intimate contact, they often abrade each other, exposing their inner tissues, which may eventually fuse. At some point the smaller tree was cut away but it still survives because it merged with the bigger tree. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn.🌳

Springtime by Pierre Auguste (1873)
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