It’ll be fine it just scrapped a bit off the top layer of bark. When it goes past the bark into the cambium then we get worried
pennsyltuckyprole
Very little, if any! That’s just the outermost layer of bark and it doesn’t look like it affected the cambium (vascular layer where nutrient transport happens) so they’ll be fine!
Cornflake294
They didn’t. The bark did its job protecting the cambium. (That’s the inner layer underneath the bark that is actively growing.)
Inner-Nerve564
Looks like an ash?
ComResAgPowerwashing
Not at all. Trees naturally exfoliate bark. This just sped it up a little. If bark didn’t fall off, there would be bark growth rings equal to the normal growth rings we count from the xylem.
blufuut180
Is this a big ash tree?
IllustriousAd9800
You sure that’s not ash borer damage? Looks very much like that, in which case that’s very bad
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It’ll be fine it just scrapped a bit off the top layer of bark. When it goes past the bark into the cambium then we get worried
Very little, if any! That’s just the outermost layer of bark and it doesn’t look like it affected the cambium (vascular layer where nutrient transport happens) so they’ll be fine!
They didn’t. The bark did its job protecting the cambium. (That’s the inner layer underneath the bark that is actively growing.)
Looks like an ash?
Not at all. Trees naturally exfoliate bark. This just sped it up a little. If bark didn’t fall off, there would be bark growth rings equal to the normal growth rings we count from the xylem.
Is this a big ash tree?
You sure that’s not ash borer damage? Looks very much like that, in which case that’s very bad