Sentence examples for heart rot from inspiring English sources

See bulb rot; crown gall; fruit spot; heart rot; rot.

Heart rot, widespread disease of trees, root crops, and celery.

The "bitter withy" is willow, and for its part in the story, the tree was cursed to "perish at the heart" – rot from within – as indeed it does.

They cause decay of birch and other hardwoods and of structural timbers (certain Poria species); conifer rot, heart rot, and root rot of rubber plants (Fomes); wood decay and root rot of cacao, coffee, rubber, and other trees (Ganoderma); and diseases of birch and conifers (Polyporus).

Ellis & Everh., the Indian paint fungus, which causes heart rot of western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf).

Of the 772 boards, 102 (13% by piece count and 16% by volume) had some heart rot.

Volume deductions, for logs with hollow heart or centre rot, are only allowed when the diameter of the defect is 15 cm or more at the measured end.

"It forms a lovely heart-rot, with the tree around forming a warm jacket, like a thermos flask," he says.

Although heart-rot had no significant effects on forest C stocks in this study, we need a better scientific understanding of their contribution to live-tree C in this ecosystem.

Despite a high incidence of heart-rot, live-tree and total forest (minus mineral soil) C stocks (348 ± 155 and 455 ± 156 Mg C ha−1, respectively) in uncut old-growth ITR stands were within the range of regional averages for old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest (US) and coastal cedar and hemlocks forests of BC.

We cored only trees with straight stems that were free of heart-rot or other visible damage, and all cores were taken in directions parallel to slopes in order to avoid tension-wood biases (Du and Yamamoto 2007).