Sageretia Theezans Bark

[Daniel_UK]

Over the last 6 months a lot of bark has fallen off my Sageretia Theezan. I know this is normal for this species (Bonsai Empire: "The bark is quite smooth and dark brown with with irregular patches peeling away, leaving light brown spots of young bark. "). My concern is that it has a full ring around the trunk that has peeled off.

I can't tell what layer remains underneath: sapwood, cambium or phloem? If the phloem is gone then I know that the roots will die eventually. Does anyone know what the lightwood layer that is now exposed is?

 

[Daniel_UK]

Sorry the images don't seem to have uploaded. I have added them here.

 

[TomB]

It will just be the outer dead layer, nothing to worry about.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Normal. The cambium layer is under the light layer remaining on the trunk.

 

[LanceMac10]

Good news is, "it's supposed to do that".........















Bad news is, "you've still got a Sageretia"...….