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  2. What’s wrong with my tree? Answers to the most common ... - AOL

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    All it can do is pop off in pieces and fall to the ground. Crape myrtles, sycamores, paper birches and a few other species just happen to do it in large sheets of paper-thin bark. Other trees shed ...

  3. Girdling - Wikipedia

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    Like all vascular plants, trees use two vascular tissues for transportation of water and nutrients: the xylem (also known as the wood) and the phloem (the innermost layer of the bark). Girdling results in the removal of the phloem , and death occurs from the inability of the leaves to transport sugars (primarily sucrose ) to the roots .

  4. Exfoliation (botany) - Wikipedia

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    In arboriculture, the term “exfoliating bark” describes the natural process and condition of the bark peeling-away from a tree trunk, typically in large pieces that remain partially attached to the trunk until such time as they are completely detached by the elements or the eventual and subsequent exfoliation of additional layers of bark ...

  5. Frost crack - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Gardening: Protect trees from damage by bark mulch or rodents

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    The bark of a tree will eventually rot if it is covered by bark mulch. Another fall task involves protecting young trees from damage by rodents. Gardening: Protect trees from damage by bark mulch ...

  7. Sun scald - Wikipedia

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    When sun scald appears on trees it is most frequently a result of reflected light off the snow during winter months. The damage in this case will appear as sunken or dead bark on the trunk of the tree, then later in the tree's life the bark might fall away revealing dead tissue in the tree's cambium layer.

  8. Bark (botany) - Wikipedia

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    The bark of Pinus thunbergii is made up of countless shiny layers. Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. [1] It overlays the wood and consists of the inner bark and the outer ...

  9. Deciduous - Wikipedia

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    In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/ d ɪ ˈ s ɪ dʒ u. ə s /) [1] [2] means "falling off at maturity" [3] and "tending to fall off", [4] in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.