A tree wrap or tree wrapping is a wrap of garden tree
sapling
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are ...
s,
roses, and other delicate plants to protect them from
frost
Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above- freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting in a phase change from water vapor (a ga ...
damage (e.g.
frost cracks or complete death). In the past it was made of straw (straw wrap) . Now there are commercial tree wrap materials, such as crepe paper or burlap tapes. Tree wrapping is also used to prevent saplings from
sunscald and drying of the bark. A disadvantage of tape wrapping is dampness under the wrapping during rainy seasons.
[''Urban & Community Forestry. A Guide for the Interior Western United States'', 1990,]
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References
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Further reading
*Frost and the Prevention of Frost Damage, by Floyd Dillon Young, 1929 (free at Google Books)
**Describes, in part, various kinds of wraps and covers
Horticulture
Cryobiology