Once leaves drop from trees, splitting, peeling, bleached or oozing bark may become more noticeable. The cause can range from normal bark development to environmental causes or disease. If tree bark ...

A reader recently asked why some of her apple trees had splitting bark. She wonders if the tree eventually will die. Splitting bark occurs because of many factors at any time. Cornell University has ...

We have a prairie fire crabapple tree that has very severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until ...

Here is a problem that can occur on trees of all sizes: The trunk splits apart below two stems of roughly equal size. In arborist lingo it is “failure of the attachment of codominant stems.” I have ...

Trees are, or soon will be, losing their leaves. That will make their trunks all the more visible. That’s when you’ll begin ...

A: There are many things that could cause bark on a tree to split: mechanical damage, animal damage, a lightening strike, even a fluctuating weather pattern. The weather rapidly toggling between mild ...

Q. My 20-something-old redbud tree has developed lichens on the trunk, which is a first. Do I have a problem and is there anything I should do? I have another one in the yard which doesn’t have this ...

Question: We have a large 60+ foot mulberry tree in our backyard that is located by our pond. This is the first year I have seen these dark streaks on the bark of the tree. Should I have concerns?

We have a crabapple tree that has very severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that healed over that we did not notice until recently. The tree ...