What causes maple tree bark to split? Published: Aug. 26, 2007, 6:13 p.m. By . bdegroff; Q: Over the last couple of years, our Norway and Sunset maples have developed long, vertical splits in the ...

Q: I have a maple tree at my summer home that has a large area of bark missing and the underlying wood is soft. The tree is alive, but I am concerned about the "open wound." This started about two ...

Q: I have a 'Red Sunset' maple tree that has what looks to be split bark on the south side of the trunk. It is a relatively young tree, and I do not want to lose it. I'm attaching a photo so you ...

Q. Two years ago we planted two types of red maple, and they had done well. Now, on one tree, the bark is falling off the trunk but the other tree doesn't have this irregularity.

First, some maple trees do shed plates of bark, and sometimes these can be in rings around the tree. However, the tree is already putting on a new tough layer underneath that will now be the new bark.

The maple beat out oak, pine and elm trees. In 1948, that selection was narrowed by another vote to sugar maple specifically. In 1893, a favorite tree was selected by a group of Wisconsin school ...

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