Editing Whitewash (section)

=== Orchards ===
[[File:Campsite-Oludeniz.JPG|thumb|White-painted trees in [[Turkey]]]]
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Whitewash is applied to trees, especially fruit trees, to prevent [[Sun scald (flora)|sun scald]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/repositoryfiles/ca2406p8-63768.pdf | title=California Agriculture PDF | publisher=ucce.ucdavis.edu | date=June 1970 | access-date=February 12, 2014 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222215511/http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/repositoryfiles/ca2406p8-63768.pdf | archive-date=February 22, 2014 }}</ref> Most often only the lower trunk is painted. In Poland painting the whole trunk is also said{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} to help keep the body of the tree cool in late winter and early spring months and hence help prevent fruit trees from blooming too soon, i.e. when warm sunny days could promote rapid tree warming, rising sap and bloom and intermittent frosty nights could damage outer tree rings and destroy the young buds and blossoms.