Gardening: Shoots on tree trunks, some branches should be removed

Do you have epicormic growth?
Epicormic (epi = upon, kormos = tree trunk) growth is the technical term for shoots that develop from hidden buds on tree trunks and branches.
Suckers, which grow out of tree trunks, often at their base, and water sprouts, which grow vertically from tree branches, or at any angle from stubs of broken branches, are the two types of epicormic growth that trees produce.
Suckers and water sprouts develop as a response to stress. They grow from latent, invisible buds ben