Purdue Landscape Report: Slime flux (also known as wet wood) is a dark, foul-smelling and unsightly seepage of sap from tree trunks (fig. 1). The disease is not usually a serious problem but the ...

Is it frothy flux, bacterial wet wood, pitch from the pinon pitch mass borer, alcoholic flux, the result of boring insects, a fungal root problem, or the result of stress? All those conditions are ...

Summer is a time of year that brings stress to those of us that spend time in the outdoors. The heat and humidity can be kind of rough and you need to make sure that you pay attention to your body so ...

Q: I have two paloverde trees in front of my house. One seems to be fine while the other has struggled for four years. I am told the tree is healthy, but every summer it leaks white, sticky foam from ...

Q: Our Japanese red maple tree was full of new leaves when the hard freeze hit. It is just now getting a few leaves again. Should I trim the tree back, or just wait and see what happens? I do not know ...

Flux and slime issues in trees is popping up more than normal. More-or-less, the terms flux or slime, as far as being descriptive of problems in trees, are nearly interchangeable. For example, there ...