Double trouble for Asplenifolia

[Gary Prentice]

There's a good thread on this on UKTC from last November. I can't link from my phone, but if you search their archive or even google 'UKTC- Advice sought' it should be easy to find.

[Betula]

From my experience, when kretz is at the far end of a buttress, it can be contained within that buttress. Although that is a risky strategy to work by!!

[Roz]

Just an observation but has the tree formed a secondary lower crown? difficult to see due to the other trees in the pick but the top growth looks clustered compared to the extension growth lower down?

 

Many years back I missed this on a Beech on the local rec....had grown up with the tree as a child.....it was always a mature specimen and it had always had a lean. When I started out in the world of arb I took more interest and was told by the groundsman they were always kicking off fruiting bodies. I asked them to leave them and sure enough it was meripilus but I didn't stand back and look at the overall crown form and density..if I had it would have shown the tree had been adapting to the dysfunction being caused by making itself more compact...it failed catastrophically one Sunday morning just after the junior football team had taken a break.....it was held up by one root no more than 1" dia.......the rest of the roots and base of the root plate were non existent.

 

In the right places such trees can be retained & managed I don't wish to be negative...