What is going on here then?

[Andrew Reed]

Near my own home is beautiful shaped tree, as it happens with a TPO. Walking by it a few days ago I noticed something was not right and out of interest wondered if someone here could recognise what is going on. See oozing white stuff at the base of the tree in the photos.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

interesting what is the tree? taxodium/metasequoia?

[treeseer]

looks more like it's just dried sap than a bacterial infection; not uncommon to have some (maybe not that much) in either genus. maybe pop it off and see where it's coming from. maybe the buttress is expanding too fast to hold it all in!

[Andrew Reed]

interesting what is the tree? taxodium/metasequoia?

 

I have wondered that myself a few times as it not a common tree for around here that I have noticed. I'll look more closely at it when I next pass it and report back. From a distance in the summer it looks beautiful. But up close it seems to have a few dead lower branches, but possibly these are just starved of light.

[treeseer]

I have wondered that myself a few times as it not a common tree for around here that I have noticed. I'll look more closely at it when I next pass it and report back.

You might take a trowel with you. That buttress is expanding in a flattish area of the flare. i would suspect root issues that might be readily sussed out with a little digging.

 

Quite the lovely crown though.