There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree
The trunk enters the ground like a post or telephone pole, with no flare spreading out at the base. Often one side of the base is flat or slightly pinched inward instead of bulging out. Sometimes a root is visible crossing the trunk or disappearing into it. Above ground, one side of the canopy thins, carries smaller and paler leaves, or turns fall color weeks ahead of the rest of the tree. Overall growth slows and the tree looks older than others its age nearby. Maples and lindens are the usual subjects.
Not urgent
A root is pressed against the trunk and compressing the conducting tissue between them. Sugars moving down and water moving up have to squeeze through a constriction that tightens every year as both root and trunk add diameter. The tree has no disease and no pest — it is strangling itself, and everything you would otherwise blame (poor fertility, drought stress, leaf scorch) is downstream of that. Because the constriction sits at the base, it also concentrates stress precisely where the tree can least afford a weak point.
What it usually costs
Normally a hazardous tree removal job: $800 to $5,000 around Indianapolis, depending on size and access. A range, not a quote.
There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree by town
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Indianapolis56
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Carmel42
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Fishers49
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Noblesville32
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Westfield33
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Zionsville37
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Greenwood26
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Avon27
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Plainfield24
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Brownsburg25
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Speedway48
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Lawrence61
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Beech Grove48
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Greenfield29
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in McCordsville45
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Fortville45
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in New Palestine43
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Cumberland45
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Franklin19
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Bargersville27
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Mooresville25
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Camby24
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Martinsville12
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Danville23
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Pittsboro30
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Whitestown31
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Lebanon19
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Sheridan25
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Cicero31
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree in Shelbyville14
Other tree problems
- The bark is falling off my tree
- The top of my tree is dying
- There are carpenter ants in my tree trunk
- My tree splits into two trunks and it looks like it's coming apart where they meet
- They dug and graded and parked right next to my tree during the build, and now it looks bad
- The trunk is cracked / the tree split down the middleurgent
- I think this tree is dead
- Something stripped the bark off my young tree
- My tree is dropping leaves in July like it's already fall
- I think my ash tree has that beetle
- My tree stood in water after the yard flooded and now it looks sick
- A long vertical split opened up in my trunk over the winter
- There's a big mushroom growing out of my tree
- Half the tree is dead and the other half looks fine
- There's a big branch hanging in the treeurgent
- My tree is hollow inside