Three Schizolobium Died

[MattyB]

Hey Y'all.  All three of my 20'+ Shizolobium died this winter and I have no idea why.  Is anyone else experiencing this?  Last spring they all flowered like crazy and made tons of seed.  But they never flowered or leafed back out this spring.  I had an avocado do this once where it flowered like crazy death throws and then died the next year.  

[Dypsisdean]

Here's Dorian's from today. He says they are slower this year with flowers and leafs and not as "happy."

 

[Silas_Sancona]

Curious myself,  Perhaps, as Dean mentions,  they're just slow to flower /leaf out this year, esp after the wetter /cooler winter / spring out there this year?  Odd.. Hopefully yours will leaf out now that its getting warmer.

[MattyB]

Hmmmm.  I looked at past pics and they've always started flowering in April.  They are dead.  And starting to turn brown in the trunks and crack.  My soil drains very well  and I'm on a pretty steep slope so I have a hard time believing they got too much water this winter.

 

[Palm Tree Jim]

Are they close to each other?

Anything else in the area showing signs of sickness?

[Tracy]

21 hours ago, MattyB said:

All three of my 20'+ Shizolobium died this winter and I have no idea why.  Is anyone else experiencing this? 

One of my neighbors on the street behind me has one and I was just looking at it when I took the dog out for a walk last night.  Looks similar in development right not to Dorian's (Dean's old place here in Leucadia).  I didn't really pay attention to when it came out of dormancy this year, but it looks fine now.  While we did get a lot more rain than we have in a long time, if your soil drains well and they were on your slope, excessive water doesn't sound like the problem.  Hope you aren't depending on them for shading something below them.

[MattyB]

On 6/2/2019 at 1:40 PM, Palm Tree Jim said:

Are they close to each other?

Anything else in the area showing signs of sickness?

They are in about the same area but nothing else is showing signs of distress in this area.

 

[Palm Tree Jim]

On 6/3/2019 at 3:45 PM, MattyB said:

They are in about the same area but nothing else is showing signs of distress in this area.

 

Perhaps a fungus related to the extended cold this past winter?

 

[LJG]

Probably just poor cultivation techniques.

Joking of course. As I pointed out when you are my my house, I lost one this winter as well. Very odd.