Slime flux , or wet wood , isa bacterial infectionthat causes trees to " cry " or " shed blood " muggins from the large offset or trunk of a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . This " crying " is called " fluxing " . Slime state of flux attacks a wide range of trees including birch , maple , elm , willow and oak , and is usual in large landscape painting trees .

Description

The prevailing symptom of muck magnetic flux is the presence of a foul - smell out ooze that flows down the trunk or the arm of a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . The gook is colorless or tan , but turn dark when divulge to air . The bacteria creditworthy for this disease make the sap inside the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to sour . During ferment , the carbon dioxide and methane gases that are raise work up up pressure that causes the sap to leak through cracks in the luggage compartment . septic wood appears water - soak and is usually discolor . The cosh on the bark attracts bacteria , barm and fungi that give rise the smell and guck .

Damage

Weeping from the trunk may last for calendar month , do the bark to decay . As the disease come along , the cambium layer that ’s responsible for producing new wood may become discredited . weep from a branch may have the leave of absence on those branches to become yellow and stunted . In addition , the fermented ooze may kill grass and nearby plants when it land on them . Slime flux does n’t usually shoot down tree , but can stress tree diagram , lead to secondary infection and worm attacks .

Preventon/Control

There is no curative for slime flux , but trees are capable to compartmentalize the disease to keep it away from hefty offshoot . Remove utter barque and loose barque so the area to a lower place can dry . Wash the sap off the open of the trunk or branch , and apply insecticidal nebulizer to reduce infestation by insects . Avoid bruise your tree . understate pruning and do n’t cut behind the rooftree of bark that forms in the branch genital organ . horticulturist used to recommend practise a hollow in the trunk and letting the sap drop out through a pipe inserted into the gob . This treatment was supposed to assist free insistency . However , it does n’t help the tree to cure any faster , and may even aggravate the condition by spreading the disease to other part of the tree .

White Flux

White flux density , alcoholic state of flux or frothy flux , is an unrelated condition that may be confuse with goo state of flux . It occur when sap ferments in barque wounds , causing a colorless or lily-white froth to appear . Unlike guck flux , it has a pleasant flavor and does n’t last very long . rut stressed trees are most susceptible to ashen flux .

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