Is my eastern hophornbeam (ironwood) dying or just stressed?
Salt scorch is the classic presentation: marginal browning and tip dieback concentrated on the road-facing side, worst in the spring following a heavy de-icing winter. Tell stress from dying at the base rather than the crown — a thin canopy that still flushes fully is stressed, while a normal-looking canopy standing over a punky, hollow-sounding butt is the tree that is actually finished.
Why eastern hophornbeam (ironwood) ends up on a quote here
Nearly indestructible except for one thing: Morton rates it as not tolerant of salt, so anything within splash range of a salted road, drive, or cul-de-sac turnaround browns and thins while an identical tree 40 ft away looks perfect. It is also the most misidentified tree on any quote, because "ironwood" gets applied to both this and American hornbeam and the two routinely get billed as each other.
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