Norway Maple?

[allmark]

Looked at a NM tree today. Has a lot of issues. Trunk looks to be grdl root. Wires above. Poor site. I havent cut anything yet but I would presume vert wilt.

 

[allmark]

Entire tree

 

[allmark]

limb

 

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trunk

 

[allmark]

Tree across the street

 

[allmark]

another tree down the street

 

[allmark]

a different tree down the street

 

[nuthin_special]

Have you eliminated ALB as a possibility? Looks like a root issue or maybe an included stem that is being choked out by the outer stems.

 

[allmark]

Dug up girdling roots which I expected and it does have green streakig in the wood. The whole neighborhood is like this. All planted the same probably.
I dont expect alb but will be climbing to check today. Hell I hope I never see it here.

 

[BostonBull]

ALB wouldnt be good, but......

Is that a new driveway?

 

[rfwoodvt]

Hey mark,

if the entire street is planted with these and they are about the same age then this is what you will probably find"
<ul type="square">[*] The original wire basket, twine or burlap still around the root ball
[*] SGRs
[*] Compression injury of the trunk and limbs at major unions especially where opposite buds over time have pinched the original central stem
[*] old sunscald wounds/crack
[*] vascular scorch as a secondary problem
[*] and if any contact with the primary wires or worn secondaries, then cellular disruption due to the electrical current, no matter how small, flowing through the tree.
[/list]

All of it stemming, originally from the first two issues.

We see it here all the time and when one gives up the ghost it is almost a sure bet we'll see half of them going within a few years.

If I were a betting man I'd but my dollar down saying that if you dig deep enough you will find the basket still on the root ball.

 

[guymayor]

I once spent 1.5 hrs pruning sgr's on a norway in search of the flare. not sighted after much cutting, so the search was called off for a year. back at it in august.