....and also red maples to a lesser degree.
Rot! Wounds send decay right into the tree where the light, soft wood rots away, leaving just a shell. There were three of these fresh stumps at the cemetery in Dahlgren when we visited today. These trees were on my radar because they were an obvious danger to tombstones, but there was no way I could handle them. The cemetery board had to hire a crew with a bucket truck and a chipper, so this job would have been north of two grand easily, unless the business owner was willing to make a large donation. These maples are also prone to running roots out of the ground, where they are wounded by lawnmowers. They are then infected with verticillium wilt, and you will see soft maples with large dead branches because of that. They die by degrees. Don't plant soft maples where removal will be costly. Think of those folks fifty years from now.
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