Re: tree damage
- Subject: Re: [SG] tree damage
- From: N* S*
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:05:44 -0500
It's just a strip about eight inches wide at its biggest. It starts below
the beginning of a main branch and then goes several feet up the branch. And
I do vaguely recall finding a big strip of bark in the driveway this summer,
but I thought it came from the various other trees that have teetered over
and leaned on each other.
I like the lightning theory, though it would have struck half-way up the
tree and not at its top. Is that possible? One night last summer the thunder
was so close to our house that our china was rattling on the shelves.
Nancy
>Nancy, is this just a strip, as in one that could have been torn off
>when a branch fell? Or is it denuded of bark all the way around the
>tree?
>
>If just a strip, the tree will probably heal itself unless there is
>some nefarious critter or disease at work. If a tree loses bark all
>the way around, what is above that loss will die in most cases if the
>cambium layer is lost with the outer bark.
>
>Is there no strip of bark laying on the ground? Any smaller bits or
>shred? Wonder what's gnawing bark 15' up the tree? Do you see any
>holes in the trunk..round or rut like? Pileated woodpeckers can do a
>fair amount of damage to wood in search of insects, but I've
>generally seen that only in dead wood...
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>mtalt@clark.net
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>> From: Nancy Stedman <stedman@RCN.COM>
>>
>> My neighbor just pointed out a tree between our houses that's
>stripped of
>> its bark just below and several feet above the crotch from which a
>large
>> branch emerges. The stripped area is at least 15 feet from the
>ground so the
>> damage couldn't possibly be from a car, etc. I'm positive that the
>tree is
>> not a maple so it can't be a victim of that dreaded beetle
>(right?), which
>> would cause the city to rush in and chop the tree down. The leaves
>are down
>> so I can't be sure but I think the tree is an old (40 or so foot)
>black
>> cherry. Is this as serious a situation as it appears to be?
>> Nancy S. (zone 6B, NYC)
>
