Q.In a forest, if the bark of a tree is damaged by the horn of a deer, How will the plant overcome the damage?

Whenever a stem or root increases in thickness through secondary growth, its original epidermis (and often the primary cortex beneath it) can no longer keep stretching to cover the widening surface, and is progressively replaced by a new protective tissue of secondary origin called the periderm. The periderm is not a single tissue but a three-layered unit, built by a lateral meristem distinct from the vascular cambium - the phellogen (cork cambium), the actively dividing layer; phellem (cork …