What’s this, foaming at the root?

[VW Splitter]

Big older white oak tree foaming at the root. You can actually see it bubbling and running out. What is this? Is it hurting the tree?

 

[ATH]

Bacterial wetwood

 

[grizz55chev]

Bacterial wetwood

Lawn mower damage

 

[ATH]

There's a good chance that's what initiated the damage...

 

[VW Splitter]

This is at my son’s house. He has oabout 10 big trees in his back yard. At least half of them are leaking like this. Will it heal itself? Or eventually kill the tree?

 

[samhop]

someone pissed on slime mold

 

[ATH]

https://www.missouribotanicalgarden...d-problems/diseases/cankers/bacterial-wetwood

 

[VW Splitter]

ATH,
Thank you.
VW

 

[Captain Bruce]

This is at my son’s house. He has oabout 10 big trees in his back yard. At least half of them are leaking like this. Will it heal itself? Or eventually kill the tree?

Not at all.....its a fungal reaction to moisture content in the surrounding soil......and cab be seen in any wild wood lot....but it does look ominous