Your Neighbors. Your Arborists.
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The sapwood of the tree has lots of sugar (carbohydrates) are stored in the xylem tissues when the tree dies that tissue is more susceptible a fungal pathogens and decays more quickly than the heartwood which has lignin content and resists decay per Tierson Boutte