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    Strange Bark on Hemlock

    From afar it looks similar to cases of old Biscogniauxia I’ve seen, but have no idea if it can grow to these depths or even colonize hemlocks. Or what it looks like on the inside.
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    Strange Bark on Hemlock

    So I returned to the job site and did some more poking around. I popped one of the plates off with a flathead, it came off fairly easily. Texture inside was dry and flaky and full of galleries containing what appeared to be a couple different species of insects, and a whole lotta poop(?). The...
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    Strange Bark on Hemlock

    Wish I had, but I was just passing by on a job site so couldn’t dwell too long. Must be fungal but it had such a bark-like appearance and texture that it kind of threw me for a loop. It’s like a bark-gall.
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    Strange Bark on Hemlock

    Site is in New York, tree is eastern hemlock. Cracked woody plates with what looks like emergence holes all over. Any ideas? Never seen this before.
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    Maple, possibly? In Rochelle, IL, U.S.

    on a site visit I’d pin that as a sugar maple all day. until taxonomists reach a consensus I’ll stick with the most distilled answer, which in this case would just be calling it a sugar. would you guys root prune this? seems to be some root-girdling-root action but I also feel like sugar maples...
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    Maple, possibly? In Rochelle, IL, U.S.

    acer nigrum
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    New to me tree

    I stumbled past a Siebold's viburnum at a botanic garden a few days ago and the winter buds looked similar to yours. They apparently get pretty tall too.
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    New to me tree

    Viburnum lantanoides.
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