heat treatment against bleeding canker
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Heat treatment against bleeding canker of horse chestnut
How does it work?
December 2015
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Heat treatment against bleeding canker of horse chestnut: how does it work?
Bleeding canker of horse chestnut is the most threatening disease for horse chestnuts. Caused by bacteria it is also highly contiguous. Most trees infected with the disease perish.Heat treatment is currently the only method that can stop the disease.The tree is covered in a ‘heat mantle’. The heat treatment frees the tree trunks from the pathogenic bacteria as much as possible.This allows the tree overgrow the damage and recover.
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Baronielaan, a street in Breda, features monumental horse chestnuts which have been infected with the bleeding canker.
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Symptoms of bleeding canker of horse chestnut.
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Two companies, Prop Boomtechniek and Ruvoma, install the equipment.
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The heat mantle is placed around the trunk and branches of the horse chestnut.
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Hot air is used as the heat source for the treatment.
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View of the tree with heat mantle.
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The site is fenced off during the treatment to keep out unauthorised persons.
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The heat treatment takes approximately two days.
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After the treatment, a sample is taken from the tree to ensure all bacteria have been killed.