Sulfur fungus grows on maple trees. Some mushrooms that grow on trees are parasites that penetrate tree bark and feed on the living tree's nutrients. Others feed on dead or decaying matter.

The fungus gradually decomposes the outer layers of bark, producing the flattened and smooth surfaces ... Figure 5 and 6 – Yellow-bellied sapsucker feeding activity on sugar maple trees. These are ...

Q: Over the last couple of years, our Norway and Sunset maples have developed long, vertical splits in the bark ... trees are nearby but do not compete with these maples. One Sunset maple is ...

Q: I have a 'Red Sunset' maple tree that has what looks to be split bark on the south side of the trunk. It is a relatively young tree, and I do not want to lose it. I'm attaching a photo so you ...

or mushroom-like growths in addition to bark loss. Those are signs of disease, rot, or infection that can spread beyond the tree’s ability to compartmentalize the damage. That’s a threat to ...

This maple, in a row of trees along the parking ... powdery patches that are the telltale marks on tree bark of the fungus Cryptotostroma corticale. At least 46 street trees have been observed ...

The sugar maple in 2022; photographs of the tree taken in 1942 ... Each has different characteristics. One has a “bark inclusion,” a dark brown mushroom-shaped mark where a branch had been ...