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 ...

Q: My large old maple tree has black bark on much of the trunk ... holes made by sapsuckers and other woodpeckers. There is a fungus that feeds on the oozed sap, turning it black.

Eventually, the entire tree succumbs. The fungus spreads by spores, and it’s those spores that can enter a person’s lungs and cause an allergic reaction called Maple Bark Disease. In parts of ...

I have a maple tree that has been planted for five years. The trunk is about three-and-a-half inches in diameter. I just noticed these vertical separations in the bark near the base. Are these ...

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 ...