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Girdling. Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the circumferential removal or injury of the bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes also the xylem) of a branch or trunk of a woody plant. Girdling prevents the tree from sending nutrients from its foliage to its roots, resulting in the death of the tree ...
Tree spiking. Tree spiking of a birch in Sweden. Tree spiking involves hammering a metal rod, nail or other material into a tree trunk, either inserting it at the base of the trunk where a logger might be expected to cut into the tree, or higher up where it would affect the sawmill later processing the wood. Contact with the spike often damages ...
EPPO Code. ERWICA. Slime flux, also known as bacterial slime or bacterial wetwood, is a bacterial disease of certain trees, primarily elm, cottonwood, poplar, boxelder, ash, aspen, fruitless mulberry and oak. A wound to the bark, caused by pruning, insects, poor branch angles or natural cracks and splits, causes sap to ooze from the wound.
A chestnut tree that has been felled, with blight on its inner bark and trunk. The fungus enters through wounds on susceptible trees and grows in and beneath the bark, eventually killing the cambium all the way around the twig, branch, or trunk. [31] The first symptom of C. parasitica infection is a
Tree injection. Trunk injection or endotherapy also known as vegetative endotherapy, [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] is a method of target-precise application of pesticides, [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] plant resistance activators, [ 7 ] or fertilizers [ 8 ] into the xylem vascular tissue of a tree with the purpose of protecting the tree from pests, or to inject nutrients ...
The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. It has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 millimetres (1⁄4 in), about the size of a grain of rice. In western North America, an outbreak of the beetle and ...
Tree Gelbman. Theresa " Tree " Gelbman is a fictional character in Christopher Landon 's slasher film Happy Death Day (2017) and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2U (2019). She was created by writer Scott Lobdell and portrayed by Jessica Rothe in both of her performances. [1] [2] Gelbman's storyline revolves around her being murdered on the night of ...
Tree topping is the practice of removing whole tops of trees or large branches and/or trunks from the tops of trees, leaving stubs or lateral branches that are too small to assume the role of a terminal leader. Other common names for the practice include hat-racking, heading, rounding over, and tipping. Some species of trees are more likely to ...