Help Pls. What has caused this?

[padrat1234]

The bark on this beech tree is missing, about 1/2meter / 1 meter.

Photo isn't great but the sun was in the wrong place can get better ones if required.

Any idea what has caused this, is it a problem? Any. Help/ advice most appreciated.

Thanks

 

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[detritus21]

Fire damage. Someone has had a bonfire to close to the tree and it has burnt all the bark off. That is my guess anyway.

[daltontrees]

Looks like fire damage alright. Especiually if in a public ark or up the back of a garden where garden rubbish might be burnt. Reasonable callus forming, in time it might heal over, but not terribly likely on an older tree. A straight race, fungi versus callus.

[Jamie M]

Agree with the above, classic fire damage.

[lyons e]

Yep . What they said

 

 

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[padrat1234]

Thanks for the answer most appreciated.

Regards Billy

[Eddy_t]

It appears to be quite an old wound, I'm gonna say squirrel damage, being as the wound is elevated and it looks like there is an agricultural type stock fence on the right side of the picture

 

 

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[padrat1234]

Yep there is stock in the field I wondered if it was animals rubbing horns or nibbling at the bark? But if so why would they have stopped and why not other trees?.....?

[Sandworks]

IMO Looks like horse and pony damage to me, they can strip off all the bark they can reach, usually in spring and autumn they never ring the bark always one side!

If the damage is over 8 or 10 foot high then probably fire damage…… damage looks like 20 plus years old to me…...

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Could be a wound resulting from failure of a codom/weak fork. The black could be Armillaria bootlaces or later stages of Ustulina deusta. Difficult to tell from the photo. Could you post some better ones (preferably the right way up as my neck is sore!).