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Questions tagged [bark]

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South Florida Oak Tree Turning Dark

Over the past couple of years I have noticed that the live oaks in my South Florida neighborhood seem to have issues on their bark. Dark and protruding patches of bark start and eventually the trees seem to be enveloped in this sickly looking bark.…
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Any idea what's girdling my apple tree?

I've got a small (and always struggling) apple tree in my yard, which just looked at for the first time this spring and discovered that the bottom foot or so of outer bark is mostly missing. I presume this is unrecoverable. Not a disaster, but a…
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Cedar bark stripped by squirrels, will tree die?

Our massive cedar has been damaged this winter by squirrels who have chewed off ends of branches for nests and stripped off bark from the base up to about 14 feet on all of the trunks. Can this be saved? It's impossible to bridge the girdling.…
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Help my asian pear tree got some girdling

I'm located in south NJ. last year I realized that my tree was bowing over from the weight of the fruits. so not thing this through then, I tied some rope to straighten it over time thinking I was going g to remove it when I see it's all better. I…
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Will red cedar bark grow back?

I have a question about a large red cedar tree that I have two of them actually a contractor doing some land leveling ran over the trunk and stripped some of the bark off for some reason this is something that is bothering me so much and I really…
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Can I save this Aspen?

Due to a hand towel tied low down around my Aspen's trunk, its bark has rotted in a ring around the trunk. I removed the hand towel when I noticed that the leaves were dried out as if the tree were dead. As per this answer, I scraped some bark off…
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My parrot chewed about 1/3 of the bark from my Norfolk pine plant. The branches are hanging down; how can I save it?

My African Grey Parrot chewed the bark off about 1/3 of my Norfolk Island Pine plant. The branches are still green, but they are hanging down. How can I save it? Is Bark wrap a good idea? I’m willing to try but I’ve read conflicting thoughts about…
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Recommendations for Cedar tree bark damage

The bark on this cedar tree got nicked by a falling branch. We don’t want to lose this tree, so I’m researching the best course of action. One horticulturalist friend told me to just strip off the remaining damaged bark (trying to preserve as much…
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