Is this bad?? Pic inside

[anthony burce]

Jelly coming out of the top!
Seiju elm

 

[Paradox]

It's probably not good. When was the tree chopped?

 

[anthony burce]

Last week

 

[Eric Group]

Not uncommon in Elms... they are pretty "juicy"- that fluid below the bark can freeze and swell and cause the bark to damage easily during times of extreme cold... especially with roots there seems to be a higher propensity of this... I once damaged a root just by touching it on a cold morning! Perhaps, was this a root cutting?

 

[aml1014]

My maples will do that if I prune them in winter, it's just the sap bleeding out and freezing. Ive never chopped a tree at this time of year except tropicals though.

Aaron

 

[GGB]

"juicing"

 

[Redwood Ryan]

... they are pretty "juicy"

....go on.

 

[Paradox]

Not uncommon in Elms... they are pretty "juicy"- that fluid below the bark can freeze and swell and cause the bark to damage easily during times of extreme cold... especially with roots there seems to be a higher propensity of this... I once damaged a root just by touching it on a cold morning! Perhaps, was this a root cutting?

well glad its not some kind of weird fungus.
Weird though, I havent seen this before.

 

[Tieball]

I think it's an alien, having traveled a great distance underground from the core of earth where it has been waiting dormant for millions of years and it worked its way up through the roots to our atmosphere, now hatching.

 

[Smoke]

 

[Tieball]

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Exactly!.....those weren't buds....those were teeth developing.

 

[BobbyLane]

Just a defence mechanism i believe, the tree trying to protect itself. nature's idea of cutpaste