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Beech bark disease is a disease that causes mortality and defects in beech trees in the eastern United States, Canada and Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In North America , the disease occurs after extensive bark invasion by Xylococculus betulae and the beech scale insect , Cryptococcus fagisuga . [ 4 ]
The bark is dark grey to black, deeply furrowed ironbark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth white to grey on the thinnest branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have lance-shaped to oblong or linear leaves that are 30–110 mm (1.2–4.3 in) long and 5–35 mm (0.20–1.38 in) wide.
E. crebra bark. Ironbark is a common name of a number of species in three taxonomic groups within the genus Eucalyptus that have dark, deeply furrowed bark. [1]Instead of being shed annually as in many of the other species of Eucalyptus, the dead bark accumulates on the trees, forming the fissures.
Trees have natural chemicals that keep most fungi at bay, but climate change could be making trees more vulnerable, researcher says. Citizen scientists to study this tree disease found in ...
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Aleurodiscus oakesii on tree bark. Aleurodiscus oakesii is the most common fungi to cause “smooth patch disease” on the nonliving outer bark of trees. This fungal infection can lead to trees shedding and leaving smooth and lighter patches of bark on the tree, giving “smooth patch” its meaning.
The bark is light gray with many medium-sized dark cracks. The blue-green leaves are tough and leathery, [ 4 ] deciduous, 4–10 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –4 in) long, and entire or shallowly lobed. The acorns are 2–3 cm ( 3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long, [ 8 ] with a moderately sweet kernel , and mature in 6–7 months from pollination .
The bark is 5 centimetres (2 inches) thick, reddish to gray (but purple within), furrowed, and divided into slender plates. [4] The leaves are needle-like, flattened, 3–6 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 2 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) long and 2 millimetres ( 3 ⁄ 32 in) wide by 0.5 mm thick, glossy dark green above, [ 4 ] with two green-white bands of stomata below ...