Answered for Camby, Camby is an unincorporated Decatur Township (Marion County) community; the adjacent Heartland Crossing development spans Marion, Morgan and Hendricks counties. County.
Common on stressed honey locust and on trees with mower or string-trimmer damage at the base — which is a genuinely avoidable cause. In Camby, because the subdivisions were farm ground until the late 1990s and were planted all at once, Camby's canopy is unusually uniform in age — a whole town of trees hitting 20 to 27 years simultaneously, with no old-growth street trees in the newer sections and mature wood only in fencerow remnants and along the Links at Heartland Crossing golf corridor. The late-1990s planting era means Callery/Bradford pear is common here; Indiana has proposed adding it to the banned invasive list but as of 2026 that ban had not taken effect. (Species mix is inferred from the verified build era rather than from a tree inventory.) A canker that has girdled more than about half the trunk circumference is structural, not cosmetic.
Because the subdivisions were farm ground until the late 1990s and were planted all at once, Camby's canopy is unusually uniform in age — a whole town of trees hitting 20 to 27 years simultaneously, with no old-growth street trees in the newer sections and mature wood only in fencerow remnants and along the Links at Heartland Crossing golf corridor. The late-1990s planting era means Callery/Bradford pear is common here; Indiana has proposed adding it to the banned invasive list but as of 2026 that ban had not taken effect. (Species mix is inferred from the verified build era rather than from a tree inventory.)
Sunken dead patches on bark, sometimes oozing, often with cracked margins. Branches above the canker die back.
A canker that has girdled more than about half the trunk circumference is structural, not cosmetic. Small branch cankers can be pruned out; trunk cankers usually can't.
Prune out affected branches in dry weather, well below the canker.
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