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Frost crack or Southwest canker [1] is a form of tree bark damage sometimes found on thin barked trees, visible as vertical fractures on the southerly facing surfaces of tree trunks. Frost crack is distinct from sun scald and sun crack and physically differs from normal rough-bark characteristics as seen in mature oaks , pines , poplars and ...
The tree was shaded by other trees in the nursery, but suddenly it’s out in full sun. The damage shows up after two or three years, and by then it’s too late.
Quercus sinuata is a deciduous tree up to 20 metres (67 feet) tall. Leaves are narrow, with shallow rounded lobes. It tends to grow in wet habitats, such as on river bluffs, river bottoms, and flatwoods, and generally over basic substrates, such as mafic rocks, shells, or calcareous sediment.
Exploding trees were the subject of a 2005 April Fools' Day hoax in the United States, covered by National Public Radio, stating that maple trees in New England had been exploding due to a failure to collect their sap, causing pressure to build from the inside. [33]
Quercus sinuata var. sinuata, commonly called Durand oak, is a variety of Quercus sinuata, a species of oak tree [1] that grows in parts of the southern United States and northeastern Mexico. [ 2 ] The common name Durand white oak most often refers to this taxon . [ 3 ]
Aleurodiscus oakesii is a cluster of small, gray-white, irregular cup-shaped saprotrophic fungi that grows on decaying hardwood tree bark. This fungus may also be called hophornbeam discs, [1] and it causes smooth patch disease. A. oakesii is found year round in North America, Europe, and Asia and is commonly found on oak trees.
Quercus hypoleucoides, though usually seen as a shrub, can be found to be a full-sized tree, 9 metres (30 feet) tall in areas where it receives sufficient water. [6] [7] The tree produces its flowers in the spring as most plants do. [8] It grows in warm regions and is used as an ornamental due to its unusual foliage. [9] Bark: Is dark gray in ...
A family in San Carlos, California, is facing an impossible decision: spend more than $40,000 to remove a nearly 500-year-old heritage white oak tree in their backyard or find new homeowners ...