What is this?

• Apr 1, 2009

• #1

W

waltonhunter

Member

Didn't know where else to post this picture.

Anybody know what this is coming from the tree. Has been dripping from the tree for 4 days.

 

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• Apr 2, 2009

• #2

TDBone

Senior Member

Does it smell bad?

Looks like some sort of disease.

Maybe...Bacterial Wetwood/Slime Flux Disease.

I am not exactly sure though. I just googled around for a few minutes and that's what I found.

 

• Apr 2, 2009

• #3

Rackbuster

Senior Member

I believe it will be pine bettles.

 

• Apr 2, 2009

• #4

Meriwether Mike

Senior Member

Moved this over here where you will be more likely to get an answer.

 

• Apr 2, 2009

• #5

bestbucks

Banned

Possibly early stages of Black Not Disease, if that is an older Wild Black Cherry tree.

 

• Apr 2, 2009

• #6

Cornelia_Hiker

Banned

Looks like lightning damage. Naturally, with the bark ripped off, the tree's sap is going to run out all over.

 

• Apr 2, 2009

• #7

bestbucks

Banned

Cornelia_Hiker said:

Looks like lightning damage. Naturally, with the bark ripped off, the tree's sap is going to run out all over.

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Yes, now that I look at it, a lightning strike would be the better choice.

 

• Apr 3, 2009

• #8

slightly grayling

Senior Member

Just one more reason we need Mr. Holt to get well and get back online!

 

• Apr 5, 2009

• #9

ncboman

Member

looks like lightning to me but I have seen trees damaged in similar fashion from tornados and water spouts.

Sap is what's dripping. Sap rises in the spring. I pruned a grapevine the other day/last week and it's still bleeding.

 

• Apr 5, 2009

• #10

swamphawg

Senior Member

Looks like an old river birch. Don't think they get black knot disease. Looks kind of like fusiform rust but I think it mainly appears in pines. I know it lives in oaks, but I don't think you actually see it until it appears as a cancer in pines.

 

• Apr 6, 2009

• #11

Kilowatt 101

Member

Looks like a beaver job to me?

 

• Apr 13, 2009

• #12

Tom W.

Senior Member

Tree blood...

 

• Apr 14, 2009

• #13

NCHillbilly

Administrator

Staff member

As TD Bone said, looks like bacterial slime flux disease.