The original poster shared a photo of their split pecan tree, still partially attached ... trapping bark instead of forming sturdy wood. This creates pockets where water collects, which can ...

pecan groves that seemed to stretch into infinity. Without compunction they chopped the trees down to grow cotton and turned the fine, hard timber into ax handles, wagon parts, and firewood.

I had a relatively minor limb cut from my pecan tree less than one year ago ... And then to your question about the bark. When the wood inside the trunk is decaying, the bark separates from ...

That scar is an artifact of a process called grafting, or fusing two separate pieces of wood into a new tree. From citrus to ...