Thoughts on this sycamore please

[PC tree]

I hope Ackworth gets back to us later on and confirms that it is a poplar :-)

[ShooTa]

its firewood is what it is

[Ackworth Arborists]

Hi everyone. We'll it looks like its a sycamore after all. Around 20inch diameter trunk and between 30 to 40ft. So didn't strike me as mature as the ones behind but I could be wrong. Everything looked fine. Just was still unsure about all the scale as I can't say I've seen this amount throughout the entire tree before. I can only assume that it is a genetic characteristic as arborowen said as it looked healthy. More thoughts on the scale welcome.

 

Cheers guys

[David Humphries]

Taken from the RFS web page on sycamore

 

[I]"Characteristics

 

Bark is dark grey and smooth when young; becoming cracked with age. Cracks may peel at the edges and the bark may become scaly and take on a pinkish-brown colour in older trees"[/i]

 

Sycamore | RFS

 

 

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[treeminkies]

does that mean its not hornbeam lol

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

35 posts! its a bit stressed, has some necroses in the canopy, probably had a bout of scale insect to boot. this would lead to early maturation in the bark, nothing unusual at all IMO.

 

a new build like this might also suggest the soil has been "manipulated" that too would cause stress and this kind of scaling early in bark maturations

[MattyF]

Hi everyone. We'll it looks like its a sycamore after all. Around 20inch diameter trunk and between 30 to 40ft. So didn't strike me as mature as the ones behind but I could be wrong. Everything looked fine. Just was still unsure about all the scale as I can't say I've seen this amount throughout the entire tree before. I can only assume that it is a genetic characteristic as arborowen said as it looked healthy. More thoughts on the scale welcome.

 

Cheers guys

 

Was there much dead wood or any die back when you visited?