Damage/disease to a nymans eucryphia

[jaffachief]

Hi, I’ve just moved to a new house that has this lovely tree out the front. However, there appears to be damage or disease to part of it - it looks like something has caused part of the wood to shear off. The missing parts are on the ground next to the tree. 
 

Can the tree survive this? Do I need to call a professional? Thanks. 

[kram]

It appears to have been butchered and cut right back to about 1 metre height in the past, with no care for its health - some of the cuts were done such that they peeled the bark off quite a way down the trunk.

 

Cutting a tree in this way causes an explosion of new shoots, which have all been allowed to grow, I count around 12 leaders in your pic which is not ideal unless you want a hedge. It looks to have had 3 to 5 years of growth since. You can see the peeler wounds have started to callous over although two near the base have started to rot and hollow out. The wounds themselves are healing and best left as they are.

Get a clean stick and poke the wounds to see how deep they are rotting or hollow.

 

It is naturally a multi stem tree however the growth is not ideal and its hard to advise from a few pictures. You may want to remove some stems particually where they start very close to another to avoid included bark, or the ones with the large wounds if they are rotting.

There is a smaller stem in the last pictures, I would remove that.

 

It will likely become much larger in 10 or 20 years and that is when problems will occur where the stems join.

It is better to prune a tree while it is young as the wounds are smaller, its ability to callous over them is better.

 

Edited September 7 by kram

[Stere]

Looks overall very healthy will be fine either way - left alone or tidy/thin out the damaged stems.

 

 

 

 

Looks from the growth like a tree species that could be coppiced/cut to the ground again as would still thrive like a bay laurel...

 

 

Edited September 7 by Stere