Healthy Mature Tree  - A mature tree is one that has decreased its dynamic to static mass.  A healthy mature tree may have a thousand or more infections.  We call some trees mature when they have formed large fissures in the phellem (corky outer bark). 

Click here for a picture of corky bark of a maple tree. 

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