Sweet Gum Tree Shedding Bark

There are tiny black bugs on it and the leaves look like they ve got speckles on them.

Sweet gum tree shedding bark. On this early spring day the tree is still a skeleton although leaf buds are just beginning to emerge and dozens of sweet gum balls dangle from its naked branches like shriveled christmas tree ornaments. Sweet gum i think peeling bark asked june 14 2016 12 32 pm edt the bark is peeling off the trunk of what i believe to be a sweet gum tree it came with the house in our front yard. These spiky balls are one reason you might not want to plant sweet gums too close to the house. Close up of bark texture on a sweet gum tree a large deciduous tree.

As the bark dries and peels it often forms colorful patches and interesting patterns on the trunk of the tree. Commonly called sweetgum sweet gum in the uk gum redgum satin walnut or a eucalyptus tree with unique peeling bark layers with whitish under layer and red shedding surface in western australia. If you have one of the non sterile varieties it will shed not only its leaves but also thousands of gum balls. It typically colonizes the sapwood of trees stressed by drought sunburn or.

When peeling bark on trees is limited to the south or southwest side of the tree and bare wood is exposed the problem may be sunscald or frost damage. The sweet gum tree a forty foot tall sweet gum tree rises from the northeast corner of my back yard. Phytophthora basal rot affects the sweet gum tree and also rhododendrons certain firs and maples beeches and dogwoods. Generally attacking weakened or wounded sweet gum trees botryosphaeria kills bark and displays areas of dead tissue referred to as cankers several cankers form on the bark of sweet gum trees resulting in lesions that may become sunken with roughened bark that peels from the tree.

The shedding bark on a eucalyptus tree is one of its most charming features. Sweet gum seeds and fruit the seeds and fruit from this tree are one and the same commonly known as gum balls and not the nice kind. Turkey tail fungus trametes versicolor is found on cut or fallen wood or on wounded areas of living sweet gum trees.