Ryan, I've heard the spouting trees attributed to bacterial wetwood, as Lee described. If you search that term in the ITRDB forum archives (http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/itrdbfor.html), you'll come up with a little more info. Apparently, the bacterial wetwood can actually prevent wood decay by maintaining conditions to anaerobic for major decay fungi.
Jess On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Ryan McEwan<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all: > > My technicians just called in- they are coring red oaks in a mature forest > near Dayton Ohio, and they report that three trees in a row have, at some > point in the process squirted, vinegary liquid from the borer bit for ~ 10 > minutes each. > > 3/3= 100% albeit a small sampling. > > So, what gives. My answer was that there must be some fissure in the canopy > of the tree that is letting water into a rot pocket and they are draining > the pocket with the borer. Alternative explanations? > > thanks > ryan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
