On a recent hike in Germany I came across a tree that I never saw before. Its entire trunk was covered with holes. The bark wasn鈥檛 cut or punctured, just weirdly bent inwards. There was just this one tree that looked like this. Unfortunately, it didn鈥檛 have leafs yet.
Do you know what kind of tree that is? Or is it some kind of virus / cancer etc. causing this?
I鈥檝e never seen anything alike. Might also be some older healed damage to the bark? Alas, the picture isn鈥檛 high-res and detailed enough for me to recognize the genotype or type. Seems a bit mossy, right? My guess is fagus, but with little confidence.
It went all the way up the tree and pretty evenly distributed, didn鈥檛 look like damage to me.
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Most probably the tree is a fagus. What illness or damage though I don鈥檛 know.
Thank you! The forest is full of pine, oak and beech trees. The bark doesn鈥檛 look like oak or pine and didn鈥檛 have needled.Thus, fagus is quite likely. It would still be very interesting if someone else has an idea of what might have caused that deformation.