Elm. We lost a bunch in the drought.
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I am not any kind of wood expert, but the lines running through the wood on the crosscut pic look like the lines that run through "spalted" wood. Been looking at 1911 stocks a lot, and this brought it to mind. Possible clue to the demise of these trees?
In Van Zandt county, in the 1980's, lots of large oak trees died. In the middle of summer, the leaves turned, and they died. You can still see the remains of some of them. We lost one at the road near my parents driveway, that the trunk was 4' by 3.5' in diameter. Never did find out why. These were most likely very old, my dad was 75 in 2000, and he said some of the oaks there looked the same as the did when he was a child.
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Originally posted by Sackett View PostCedar Elm. The other trees that are dying, is there bark falling off the tree? Red-headed Ash borers will infect weakened cedar elms. When the larvae hatches, it eats the sap under the bark, killing the tree in the process.
The first tree you posted does not have the growth characteristics of a cedar elm, but trees grown in the wild can do crazy things when competing for sunlight.
Yes every single one has the bark falling off the tree. Probably 10 of them in total
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