Girdled Tree (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Girdled Tree

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Unlike native bittersweet, oriental bittersweet can girdle young trees, leaving a permanent spiraling groove in the bark and killing a tree before it matures.

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Photo by David Zaya

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