Nearly all of the mature leaves on this newly planted kwanzan cherry tree look like this photo (tree was planted this spring). New leaves have been growing, but at a certain point, this happens to them. A diseased tree?
I had 11 Kwanzan Flowering Cherry trees. A couple have died after bark split around trunk and a few others are beginning the same process. What might cause the bark splitting and peeling away..... and the tree then dying. Please view the accompanying photos.