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 ...

The maple in the above photo is suffering from what we call winter cracking or frost cracking in trees. What happens during very cold weather is that the side of the tree that faces south in the sunny ...

A reader recently asked why some of her apple trees had splitting bark. She wonders if the tree eventually will die. Splitting bark occurs because of many factors at any time. Cornell University has ...