Liriodendron bark loss

[Ricsydney]

Hi. This tulip tree is almost completely ring barked, looks like insect damage. Any ideas? Thanks.

[jaime bray]

Fire damaged perhaps, any building work in distant past where by some impact had occurred. Has tree been pollarded , or had large limbs removed above delaminated bark. Such pollarding (topping) may have had significant affect on sap flow through out the tree, and the area may have dried out through lack of water and nutrient transportation.

[Mortimer Firewood]

I've had exactly the same appear on a tulip tree on one of our maintained sites never got to the bottom of what it was.

[jaime bray]

Just had look on pc and not the phone, and judging by the large wounds in picture above the delamination, I'd hazard a guess the sap flow disruption would be key to this particular problem

[Mortimer Firewood]

Jamie when we had this problem(if tits the same it Certainly looks it) there was defiantly some form of insect and the bark looked like it was been eaten. Never had time to peruse it and damage stopped as quickly as it came.

 

The only thing that changed on that park land was rabbit fencing??"???

[Mountain man]

Have you discounted honey fungus? maybe I'm stating the obvious but I've seen willows shed bark like that and they had HF, the insect stuff was secondary, ie the borers came after the fungus.

Just a thought.

[treeseer]

Scrape off dead material and cover with black rubber to encourage new callus growth from phloem tissue and wood rays.

Nothing to lose...

[Island Lescure]

  treeseer said:

Scrape off dead material and cover with black rubber to encourage new callus growth from phloem tissue and wood rays.

Nothing to lose...

 

How much could you expect to recover doing this? Surely this one is too far gone no?

[treeseer]

Surely, unless we have a big S on our chest, we cannot see inside the tree, to surely predict the likely rate of any natural radial response growth. But yes expectations here would not be high.

Closure can be complete when the damage is fresh.

This bark loss looks related to the loss of 2 big branches above.

If they were healthy, they nourished that side of the trunk before some arborist took them away. Now that area is starving, dessicating.

It could be also that the branches, and that area below the wounds made by a saw, died due to root issues.

The chicken or the egg; which came first? This data might inform predictions.

Or maybe the truck that delivered the trampoline crushed the roots, bashed into the trunk, and broke the branches!

Edited April 5, 2015 by treeseer