Painting a young tree trunk white helps reflect sunlight ... And in winter, a young tree in full sun with no leaves gets heavy doses of the sun’s rays while the sun is lower in the sky.

A reader sent Snopes a meme containing an photograph of a tree trunk along ... Although there's no evidence as of this writing to fully support the claim that tree leaves darken when a body ...

Planting too deep, especially covering the base of the trunk, can cause rot and kill the plant. Planting trees in the middle of a lawn without a mulch ring can damage the trunk from lawn care ...