Slits

[TreeLogic]

Thanks Guy. Do you think it's the same as what was on yours?

 

[guymayor]

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Thanks Guy. Do you think it's the same as what was on yours?

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No, those were lateral, not longitudinal slits, and they had those miniholes in them, and they were in younger tissue.

0 for 3 actually; that case remains unsolved, awaiting further evidence. Next time I'm in Austin...

 

[TreeLogic]

There are a few laterally oriented ones on mine but they're not as large as the longitudinals. Oh well, worth a shot.

 

[pincherookie27]

cat scratch?

I just want to apologize for what I am about to do. Just know I couldn't help my self.


Maybe you have discovered a new disease, which we can call...wait for it...Cat Scratch Fever!

sorry..so sorry

 

[pincherookie27]

I'm pretty sure its nothing dangerous...
I'll stop now

 

[north dallas]

guymayor, something similar has happened over a very short timespan to the lacebark elm in my backyard. Do these look like what happened to yours? Did you ever arrive at a diagnosis?

 

[guymayor]

must be a tx thing; do yours have any other symptoms or signs of something amiss? i can check in w the guy in austin.

 

[north dallas]

Nothing else I'm aware of. (I'm not a pro though.) I had a tree guy take a look. His immediate diagnosis was sapsuckers, but after looking at sapsucker damage online, I have my doubts. I did see a squirrel going to town up high up in the tree the other day so I'm wondering if it's a family of mutant squirrels or something. I will say that he number of slits on the tree is alarming.

 

[guymayor]

holes too small for a sapsucker, or just about any bird or mammal. that brown patch in your 2nd pic does look like skwerl--what did you see em doing?

i'm not a pro either; not on this one anyway!

 

[RopeShield]

Stem loading causing cell rupture at the apex?
Ice storm this past winter is showing slots as well as the splits

 

[north dallas]

It appeared to be chewing or gnawing on the bark. It was way up high so I couldn't tell if it was chewing a groove along the lines of these slots or whether it was peeling off the bark in flakes like squirrels typically do.