A nearly seven-foot piece of trunk will be featured in an art exhibit to honor the beloved tree. Hugging it is encouraged.

Purdue Landscape Report: Slime flux (also known as wet wood) is a dark, foul-smelling and unsightly seepage of sap from tree trunks (fig. 1).The disease is not usually a serious problem but the ...

The sparse tree's trunk diameter is 23 inches and the branch spread is 16 feet. The trees are planted 21 feet apart. Advertisement. S.L., Fort Worth. It sounds like they were planted in holes.

If you've ever seen a tree trunk wrapped in wire or metal sheets and wondered what it meant, here's the surprising (but effective) reason behind it.

Nothing can salvage a tree infected with h ypoxylon in its trunk, though nearby trees are not necessarily at high risk if they are not seriously wounded or stressed.

A: As a tree gets older, the woody tissue of the trunk and limbs divides into two zones: heartwood and sapwood. Heartwood cells usually contain tannins or other substances that make it dark ...

The Seward neighborhood bur oak, determined to be more than 300 years old, was declared dead and cut down in 2010.

The damage to trees from buck rubs comes from the shredding of bark from a foot or so above the ground to 3 to 5 feet up the trunk. Young trees have very thin bark that is easily damaged.

One year after the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down a 7ft (2m) section of the trunk has returned home. The piece is now the star-attraction in a new exhibition at The Sill visitor centre near ...