With the very cold weather throughout the nation, stories and videos are appearing on the internet of trees exploding. Although it sounds unbelievable, can trees really explode?
As weather warms...and it will - the calendar says it is officially spring - people will hopefully be spending an increasing amount of time outdoors. As they are outside, they may notice some things that they had not observed last year, and it may catch them by surprise and they may begin seeking answers. We had just the situation in the OSU Lucas County Extension office when a resident stopped by to ask what happened to their tree over the winter.
Their verbal description of "vertical raised lines" on the main trunk of some of their trees in their landscape, and photos on their cell phone...
