girdling root

Plastic tubs can also create a syndrome called girdling roots.

Girdling roots are not the result of insects or disease but they can cause significant stress and damage to a tree.

Girdling roots are those appearing at the soil surface, the ones you hit with your mower.

First it was verticillium wilt, then girdling root and now a lot of construction damage.

Issues for Brown Girdling Root Rot 1.

Girdling roots are generally a problem in planted trees only, particularly in container grown stock, they may also result from careless or improper planting techniques.

Minor diseases Brown Girdling Root Rot (Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium spp.)

As the name implies girdling roots are those roots which grow in such a manner that over time they girdle or squeeze off a section of the cambium layer at the point of contact with another root or the base of the tree.