The Purdue Landscape Report titled Slime Flux of Trees shares more about this disease: Slime flux (also known as wet wood) is a dark, foul-smelling and unsightly seepage of sap from tree trunks. The ...

I just planted a fruit tree and was told by a friend that I should paint the trunk with white paint ... exposing the wood underneath. Sunburn causes the same type of damage that sunscald does ...