Euc Dieback?

[PeteB]

As I get about a fair bit of countryside, I notice a reasonable number of Eucalyptus that are dead on the hoof. Are their many near you? What do you think is the cause? What are the future uses for it once it is one the ground?

[Peter]

I have done a few dead ones this year.

 

Frost maybe?

 

All the timber goes in the firewood pile.

[armchairarborist]

got one to fell next week, looked healthy last year but now most of the bark has fallen off and its terminal, lovely firewood:biggrin:

[Fungus]

Frost maybe?

 

Definitely frost and in The Netherlands also extreme drought.

[kevwrenn]

very few in Lincoln survived the harsh winter, also not seen a live cordyline since the winter.

[Gnarlyoak]

Blimey PeteB, where have you been hiding? As discussed several times on the forum both last year and again this year, many Eucs it seems have been unable to withstand days or weeks of sub zero temps that the UK has experienced during the last two winters.

 

Cordyllines too, have been very badly hit, all the ones I saw that had managed survive last year seem to have karked it this year (including my parents). But in North Mcr. today we felled a very dead Cordy and just 4 houses up, on the opp side of the road but roughly facing the same direction was a another much taller Cordy which was a picture of health!

[Simon Rotheram]

A few of the Eucalyptus we have been monitoring have started to recover, have people found this?

 

One of the trees that had died completely we took down, the cross section of the trunk appeared to have some kind of bacterial infection bacterial infection?

[PhilBeech]

There is two problems going on I believe, I have seen the same as Simon but mostly up here it is frost damage.