Sap rot

the dry rot. See under Dry.

See also: Sap

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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quercina is an agent of butt trunk heart or heart sap rot; it is a facultative parasite [8, 10] and tends to live in more anthropogenically transformed forest stands, where it is more often met on the inert substrate--stumps, cut and thrown trunks, their stubs.
Popularity of species of polypores which are parasitic upon oaks in coppice oakeries of the South-Western Central Russian Upland in Russian Federation
Some of the scaling defect (sap rot and wormholes) in fire-killed trees can be a result of beetle infestation and thus similar or identical to the defect found in beetle-killed trees.
Weather checking and sap rot were the cause of lumber grade fall-down.
Value loss in ponderosa pine logs from beetle activity following fire in southern Oregon
Once infected, sap rot causes trees to weaken, making them easily blown down by wind.
Dean Kvasnikoff
Heart-rot fungi invade and weaken the cores of the trunk or limbs; sap rots attack sapwood, destroying vital tissues, then spreading to the interior.
The life in dead trees: the teeming world inside snags, 'wolves' and nurse logs
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