Park Slope's Dexter Tree Drips Bloody Sap

I hope to never come out of a bodega and find my non-existant car smeared in what appears to be a crime scene's aftermath. A tree located on 1st street between 5th and 6th avenue leaks sap that looks a helluvalot like blood. HOLYSHIT. Park Slope Patch investigated the sitch and reports:

"But this splatter is not a job for a forensic scientist, but rather for an arborist. The “bleeding” is called slime flux and it leaks from a wound or crack in the tree due to a bacteria or fungi that has invaded the inside of the wood. The bacteria attract microorganisms that live in the sap and produce gas. The pressure from the gas eventually forces the slime flux, which is toxic to the bark, to ooze out of the tree’s cracks or wounds. This disease, which is also referred to as wetwood, has no known cure."  

Yeah, what he said.

[Via Park Slope Patch / Photos by Will Yakowicz]