Look at these beauties !!

[Luckyleaf]

[Arb Rhino]

Cool stuff where did you find those? (On a tree is not a valid answer haha)

 

 

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[Luckyleaf]

Around 12 foot up on a quercus in customers garden, 1 either side !!!

[Arb Rhino]

How's it coping? Starting to die back or is it doing okay?

 

 

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[sloth]

Chicken of the woods on oak, won't cause die back. It only decays the inner heart wood, so the water conducting vessels nourishing the roots and shoots are unaffected and still working. It sometimes causes failures of live scaffold branches around that height as the holding wood is brown rotted. A kind of natural pollard in oak caused by fungi, allowing a new crown to form lower down on a stout strong hollow bole, full of nutrient rich decayed wood to feed the aging tree

[Arb Rhino]

My mistake I didn't think it was chicken of the woods, the chicken of the woods I've seen on oak stems tends to be thicker and more "rounded" (see attached picture)

 

 

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[Luckyleaf]

Crown in fine, has co-dominant stems starting from about 2.4 metres, this is on one of the stems 3.6 meters up either side, has had a 25 % height reduction in the past .. Thats is shown in my local council records, a pretty major amenity tree for my area with a 1.6 diameter main stem. Unfortunately a relatively new house been built too close with quite a large percentage of upper crown over the roof . I can't understand how these buildings get permission...unbelievable ...!!

[Luckyleaf]

Arb rhino .. Definitely Chicken of the woods (laetiporus sulphureus)

[Luckyleaf]

A couple of more pics from todays inspection.

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

my mates tree across the road dumped a massive crown portion today due to Laetiporus, dodgy with unions close by the decayed region