"George" george@least writes:


What I am curious about is the bill from this guy said the tree was
dead and needed to come down. Yet, it's got leaves. Granted, it
definitely doesn't look as healthy as the otehr black cherry sitting
next to it, but why say a tree is dead when it's got greenage?


Why say a person is "terminal," when they still have six months to live?

Brown rot in the center will cause the tree to become a weakened menace to
you and your home even as the cambium sustains leaves.

In a forrest near my home this winter a few pine trees were broken off
by high winds. They looked quite healthy on the outside but where they
broke off ( about 1.5 meters from the ground they were rotted inside;
on a 40cm diameter tree only the outer 4cm where sound wood, the
inside was completly soft stuff. After the trees wre cut up so that
they coub be removed you could see that about 3m up from the ground
the wood was sound all the way through.
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