Q: An entire branch on my Hinoki cypress browned out and died. I looked at where the branch meets the main trunk and saw that the outer bark of the branch has peeled away from the "core" for about ...

: I have five, large Italian cypress that are all four years old. When I returned from my trip last week, I noticed one of them looking very dry and sick, I unfortunately watered it heavily for two ...

The bark of this tree will be gray and fairly smooth, sometimes with checkering, and of course, various kinds of mosses like to grow on the bark. The base of the tree is swollen.

The trunks of water tupelo, Nyssa aquatica, are flared out at the base (much like cypress), and of course you've probably seen their peculiar, crooked roots arising from the wet ground, together ...