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the bark and decay the heartwood. The diseased heartwood softens, making trees structurally weaker and prone to breakage. Heart rot is a major factor in...

dry. Such resin-saturated heartwood is called "fat lighter". Structures built of fat lighter are almost impervious to rot and termites, and very flammable...

that digests moist wood, causing it to rot. Some species of wood-decay fungi attack dead wood, such as brown rot, and some, such as Armillaria (honey fungus)...

progresses, rot within the heartwood occurs. The rot appears as a yellowish-white spongy material with black zone lines surrounding it. The main body of rot occurs...

the cut branches and thus making the heartwood more resinous. The resultant ore-pine is much more resistant to rot and decay, as evidenced by stave churches...

Laminated root rot also known as yellow ring rot is caused by the fungal pathogen Phellinus weirii. Laminated root rot is one of the most damaging root...

Omphalotus species cause a white rot by breaking down lignin in their tree hosts. The fungus infiltrates the heartwood of the tree via a breach in its...

filled with air bubbles, and they help to form a stronger heartwood by slowing the progress of rot. Tylosis in the vessels of flowering plants counteracts...

saprophyte and occasionally a weak parasite, causing brown cubical rot in the heartwood of trees on which it grows. Unlike many bracket fungi, it is edible...

is the primary source of fatwood, as the resin-impregnated heartwood becomes hard and rot-resistant after the tree has died. Wood from other locations...

especially prized for their wood, of which the heartwood is extremely rot- and termite-resistant. The heartwood contains a sesquiterpene called cypressene...

and mourning. Bald Cypress trees are valued because of their rot-resistant heartwood when the trees are mature. Because of this, the trees are often...

decays tree trunks, rendering them useless for lumber. It is a rot of the heartwood. Signs of the fungus include shelf-shaped conks protruding from the...

in North America, Australia, and Eurasia, where it causes a white rot in the heartwood of living and dead hardwood trees. The name "dryad's saddle" refers...

by the end of July 2024. Flower and leaf buds Pods Logs with heart rot Heartwood/sapwood Trunk/bark List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody...

particularly poorly healed branch stubs. The white rot decay will spread throughout the heartwood of the host. During the infection cycle, penetration...

particularly oaks (Quercus spp.). It causes a white stringy rot in the roots and heartwood of the lower trunk, typically not extending more than 3–5 feet...

analgesic by indigenous Australians. Extracts of Acacia auriculiformis heartwood inhibit fungi that attack wood. Aqueous extracts of A. auriculiformis...

haematococca is a fungal pest of the tree, causing damage to the leaves and the heartwood in Javanese plantations. In India, trees may be subject to serious damage...

furniture makers. The natural durability or rot and insect resistance of wood species is always based on the heartwood (or "truewood"). The sapwood of all timber...