Once leaves drop from trees, splitting, peeling, bleached or oozing bark may become more noticeable. The cause can range from normal bark development to environmental causes or disease. If tree bark is peeling, this could be normal. The bark of many young ...

We have a prairie fire crabapple tree that has very severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until recently. The tree seemed to be slow leafing out this ...

My cherry tree has a problem. The bark is splitting and coming away. It has been looking fine with good foliage and flowers. What is the prognosis? Is there anything I can do? — Ed Bowne. I checked with Ed to make sure that there were no other cracks in ...

Q: I've got a large tree that looks like something's going wrong about 6 feet up where the main trunk veers out in different directions. The wood there has been constantly wet, almost like it's oozing. Is this something I should worry about? A: Sounds like ...

A: There are many things that could cause bark on a tree to split: mechanical damage, animal damage, a lightening strike, even a fluctuating weather pattern. The weather rapidly toggling between mild and cold can create ‘frost cracks’ as a tree’s ...

There’s a phenomenon sweeping social media that you may have seen — or even searched for — called “exploding trees."