{"id":257,"date":"2019-12-20T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/?p=257"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:26:38","slug":"tree-bark-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/tree-bark-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree bark injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/files\/2019\/12\/weed-trimmer-damage-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image of tree bark injury\" class=\"wp-image-258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/files\/2019\/12\/weed-trimmer-damage-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/files\/2019\/12\/weed-trimmer-damage.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Split bark, or vertical cracks along the lower tree stem of young trees, most commonly occurs on thin-barked trees. Large cracks can become long-term open wounds that are more susceptible to wood-boring insects, fungal diseases and wood decay.\u00a0 <br><a href=\"https:\/\/fieldreport.caes.uga.edu\/news\/tree-bark-can-split-from-cold-temperatures-following-excessive-sun-and-heat\/\">Read the entire article on CAES Field Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Split bark, or vertical cracks along the lower tree stem of young trees, most commonly occurs on thin-barked trees. Large cracks can become long-term open wounds that are more susceptible to wood-boring insects, fungal diseases and wood decay.\u00a0 Read the entire article on CAES Field Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diseases","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}