Chopping Neea

[jszg]

I have a moderately sized Neea buxifolia- just from how the wood and bark look and behave, it seems that it would have trouble closing wounds. But, as it stands, it has a stretch of taper less wood that I could easily lobb off. How well does this species backbud and recover from this? I'm worried about dieback killing the darn thing.

 

[nuttiest]

You are right to worry the wound will not close, because it generally won't on anything over 1". You can strip the bark despite it being a tropical the wood is very rot resistant.. It also has a characteristic of large tubules in the grain, so plan ahead for that on any deadwood.