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Category: Management: Tree Defects

117 Records
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1238006 Symptoms Heart rot cross-section showing inner branching
1238007 Symptoms Heartwood rot (Ram's horn)
1238129 Failure Large blowdown.
1238149 Failure Stem heartwood decay led to this blowdown (note extensive lichens). SC.
1397050 Failure after wind storm
1397051 Failure during a storm, the tree behind the photographer failed, producing this damage to a parked car
1397053 Damage This tree had extensive decay, with very little sound wood shell.
1397054 Damage Tree with extensive decay failed in a windstorm.
1397059 Damage Dead tree failure at roots, causing property damage.
1397064 Damage
1397065 Failure Badly decayed oak tree failure at lower trunk.
1397073 Failure Tree failure from root and butt decay in campground
1397087 Sign Bur oak with decay and large cavity.
1397088 Symptoms sawdust and chips at base of tree, indicating decay.
1397091 Failure tree with extensive decay: note shell thickness
1407034 Symptoms Giant redwoods are no more immune to injury than the most auuaulted city tree; fruiting bodies on the exterior of the tree are cleas signs of internal decay
1407038 Feature(s) Striped of large sections of bark, a tree dies. Fungi soon invade; fruiting bodies on the trunk of a tree are a clear sign of decay
1407074 Sign brown cubical rot
1408009 Feature(s) From another view you can see the dead leader beside the sound new leader. When filling cavities, do no injure the callus or break the band of hard wood around the decayed area.
1408010 Feature(s) Cavities often fill with water. Do not drill holes to drain the water or decay will spread into the surrounding wood.
1408042 Symptoms Fluids oozing from almost-closed wounds indicated internal problems. This English oak is 4 feet in diameter. The callus collar is very large, as is the internal column of decayed wood.
1408074 Sign Examine trees for indicators of internal problems when they are positioned where they could fall and damage property or injure people.
1408075 Sign Some hazards are obvious.
1408077 Fruiting Bodies Fungus fruit bodies on old branch cuts are reliable indicators of internal decay.
1473004 Symptoms
1473023 Failure

butt section decay and subsequent failure

1473035 Failure

decay and failure

1503072 Sign Heart rot; hardwoods; butt bulge shows the extent
1503073 Symptoms Stump rot
1503075 Inspection Jump butt; Bent Creek
1503078 Inspection Heart rot; oak; x-sect of previous stump
1503094 Symptoms Red heart; Four Notch area
1505091 Diagram or Graphic Art - Hollow resulting from decay
1507028 Diagram or Graphic Art - Wood inhabiting microorganizms..
1507039 Diagram or Graphic Art - Hollow center due to rot
3047015 Symptoms cut logs showing hollowing; heartrot
5029006 Symptoms Severe decay in butt of red oak. Causal agent unknown.
5033004 Sign This tree has severe decay and extremely poor architecture, and is a very high hazard.
5033005 Sign A badly decayed and hazardous silver maple.
5034068 Symptoms
5034083 Symptoms

Large, dead, decayed white pine. Martin MacKenzie provides scale.

5037075 Sign

Green ash with central stem decay.  This open-grown green ash tree failed in a windstorm.

5037091 Sign This is a dead red pine, approximately 30' tall. The hazard is from potential kick-back when people dig at the lower part of the bole.
5037100 Failure

Branch failure in a large tree.

5038001 Failure

Branch failure in a large tree.

5038004 Failure

Dead tree with extensive decay; failure near road.

5038026 Failure

Collapsed crown caused by decay and high winds.

5043003 Failure

Box elder with extensive decay. Failed in a windstorm.

5043004 Failure

Box elder with extensive decay. Failed in a windstorm.

5043005 Failure

Box elder with extensive decay and very little sound wood. Failed in a windstorm.

5043009 Failure

Codominant branch failure.

5043016 Failure

Cottonwood with extensive decay, failed in a windstorm.

5043017 Failure Broken tree with root rot
5044038 Failure

Extensive decay in a tree that collapsed during a windstorm.

5044079 Sign

Tree with basal decay and hole, allowing water to enter.

5049038 Symptoms

Brown cubical rot, unknown cause.

5050081 Sign

Decay column in red maple.

5052056 Sign

Tree with green crown, but extensive decay in the bole.

5052057 Sign

Tree with a green crown, but extensive decay in the bole.

5052058 Sign

Tree with a green crown, but extensive decay in the bole.

5052059 Sign

Tree with green crown, but extensive decay in the bole.

5052060 Sign

Tree with green crown, but extensive decay in the bole.

5052061 Sign

Tree with green crown, but extensive decay in the bole.

5052062 Sign

Tree with green crown, but extensive decay in the bole.

5052063 Sign

Tree with green crown, but extensive decay in the bole.

5052083 Testing

Using an increment corer to examine a tree for decay.

5053053 Failure

Small tree with decay that failed near a parking lot.

5177089 Sign tree with a large hollow along a city street
5177090 Sign close-up of large hollow along a city street
5191062 Sign decay in pine
5191063 Sign decay in pine
5191066 Sign decay in pine
5191067 Symptoms The base of the tree has had substantial decay and it is possible to see through the base
5251059 Symptoms

Basal decay in oak; cause unknown.

5252011 Symptoms

Decay in a cottonwood that failed during a windstorm.

5291098 Sign heart wood decay evident
5298011 Sign
5298016 Symptoms

Sawdust at base of tree, indicating internal decay.

5298017 Symptoms

Decay at base of bole, in campground.

5298018 Symptoms

Decay in stump from old codominant stem.

5298019 Symptoms

Decay and piliated woodpecker injury.

5298022 Failure

Failed branch attached to decaying codominant stem.

5298023 Failure

Failed branch with severe decay.

5298025 Failure

Failed decayed branch.

5298026 Symptoms

Hole in tree from decayed branch drop-out.

5298027 Symptoms

Hole in tree from decayed branch drop-out.

5298028 Symptoms

Hole in tree from decayed branch drop-out.

5298029 Symptoms

Cavity and decay in bole, with abundant epicormic branching.

5298030 Symptoms

Discoloration and decay in branch trace and stem, cross-section.

5298032 Symptoms

Stump with extensive internal decay.

5298041 Symptoms

Hole through tree caused by internal decay.  Jana Albers is the person.

5298042 Symptoms

Large open cavity and decay in bole of large tree.

5298044 Symptoms

Extensive decay in bole.

5298045 Symptoms

Extensive decay in bole (cross-section).

5298046 Symptoms

Extensive decay and branch failure.

5298047 Symptoms

Open cavity and decay at base of bole.  Peter Bedker, Peggy Sand

5298048 Symptoms

Tree with scar from large decayed branch failure.

5298049 Symptoms

Sawdust and woodchips at base of decayed tree.

5298050 Symptoms

Opening at base of tree signifying internal decay.

5298058 Symptoms

Brown cubical rot at base of dead tree.

5298059 Symptoms

Large cavity and decay at base of standing tree.

5298061 Failure

Large tree with old branch failure.

5298062 Failure

Old, poorly sealing branch failure.

5298064 Symptoms

Cross section showing extensive decay of heartwood, but showing good compartmentalization.

5298065 Symptoms

Cross section with decay and carpenter ant tunnels.

5298066 Symptoms

Cross section with extensive decay and carpenter ant tunnels.

5298068 Symptoms

Hole in tree with extensive decay and cavity.

5298069 Symptoms

Tree with wound caused by lightning, and associated woodpecker injury.

5298070 Symptoms

Branch decay resulting from improper maintenance (topping)

5298073 Symptoms

Discoloration and decay in wood pile after storm damage.

5298092 Sign
5357469 Fruiting Bodies

The fruiting bodies of a decay fungus on a dead tree.

5369257 Sign

fruiting bodies are a sign of further decay occuring in the stem of this tree

5369258 Fruiting Bodies

fruiting bodies are a sign of further decay occuring in the stem of this tree

5375229 Sign

Severely decayed stem

5394946 Sign

white mycellia in cavity of tree

5394947 Sign


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