Bleeding Canker

[Interpreter]

It was announced this morning that a great number of Horse Chestnut trees are to be cut down because they are infested with bleeding canker. Some streets in Nottingham will lose all of their trees.

[juliejam]

Ive just checked this disease out on the net. the early symptons tend to be bleeding lesion of rust-red and yellow-brown gummy liquid that oose from small patches of truck ...I will have to check out my local park as we have many Horse Chestnut trees there...would hate to see them in time lost for ever because of this disease...


The thought of parks and streets without these great trees would be a dreadful shame.

Julie

[Peter W]

There is a large Horse Chestnut tree outside my house and last year it lost all its leaves early because of Horse Chestnut leaf miner and parts of the bark also showed signs of bleeding canker. This year is has looked fairly ok, although showing symptoms of both problems yet again.

My understanding is that these trees can withstand the attacks of leaf miner reasonably well from year to year, but bleeding canker is the big problem. I believe that the canker symptoms can be present for some years without the tree dying, but what is happening is that it is slowly spread around the circumference of the trunk underneath the bark. Once the tree has effectively been´ring-barked` in this way, it then dies.

[Pete Collins]

Sadly four Horse Chestnuts have had to be brought down in my village, because they were diseased (don't know if it was the canker). They were amongst a nice long line of Horse Chestnuts between the road and the Recreation Ground. Apparently the Parish Council had been monitoring their condition for some years, but eventually had to take action on safety grounds. Two replacement Horse Chestnuts have been planted, as well as three Lime trees.

[Peter W]

Nice to hear that your Council replaces lost trees with woodland scale trees - where I live in south London we just get a token lollipop tree when a big one is lost.

[paulchandler6]

No problem here, come across quite a few Horse Chestnuts today and all looked healthy.

Paul

[naturelover]

when i lived in chelmsford there was a huge horse chestnut tree,about five years ago i noticed it didnt look right, it was very limp all the time even after lots of rain,this went on for years it never looked well up untill i moved,i saw the news too and it makes me wonder now if thats what was wrong with that tree.

[September]

Its a shame to see Horse Chestnuts felled, such lovely trees they are. I will keep my eye out for signs of bleeding canker locally as they have been planted in great abundance here.