Eucalyptus are dying

[redmoosefaction]

Seen one in Ealing (west London)

 

Maybe be something to do with the drought (Maybe!)

[skyhuck]

I've removed more this last 12 months than the previous 12 years.

 

As others have said, its the very cold winters of 09/10 and 10/11 thats thought to have caused the deaths.

[Minotaur]

Dismsntled a few over the last couple of years in South East London and Kent.

 

Doubt drought or lack of water a responsible - they grow happily in Australian desert like conditions.

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

Took a tri stemmed living one down this week and got a completely dead one to do next week, I'm up in Newcastle where I doubt there has been drought since 1940 considering all the bloody rain we've had!

[Shane]

Looked at a large specimen today, 1/4 of leaves on most branches gone brown.

Loads of branches hanging down vertically. More than normal dead in the middle. It looks like its on the way out.

This is in sunny Worthing where it is usually slightly warmer but the previous winter was pretty bad so I'm thinking thats what did it.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

They are dying because the cambium freezes and expands, this lifts and cracks the bark and forms strips of dead cambium, sometimes in fact often not obvious till you peel it away or look closely at the cambium edges of the rings/cordwood. I suspect this is why the younger ones die so readily, they dont have the insulating layer of peeling bark or the bark surface area/diameter to get over a few dysfunctional vascular/phloem strips

[Warren Stirling]

They are dying because the cambium freezes and expands, this lifts and cracks the bark and forms strips of dead cambium, sometimes in fact often not obvious till you peel it away or look closely at the cambium edges of the rings/cordwood. I suspect this is why the younger ones die so readily, they dont have the insulating layer of peeling bark or the bark surface area/diameter to get over a few dysfunctional vascular/phloem strips