Fungus on willow

[daltontrees]

Oh no! Hold up. I see pores on the underside of the later image - Stereum species lack pores. It might all be Trametes versicolor.

 

Good diagnostic characteristic, that. Thanks for the reminder.

[Marc Lewis]

Ahhh ok, that's interesting Dalton. After others suggested it was Trametes v I did a little research on it and there read that it is saprophobic. Although the photo shows the fungus on dead wood, it is in another tree on site on live wood which made me sceptic. it certainly does look like Trametes v and am happy as to that is what it is. That was my exact thoughts and concern of removing any parts of the tree, I did not know if there was anything else that could be done to help protect the tree from this fungus. Does this fungus do any harm or does it only live off any dead wood in the tree? I shall research further later. The clients house is named after these 3 trees and is understandably concerned.

 

I find fungi fascinating (maybe a little sad) although I know very little, I do enjoy learning .

 

Thank you all very much with your help.

 

It is still bothering me that the fungus has colonised on live wood, maybe that is another spp of Trametes.

[David Humphries]

It's not really black and white with fungi and where/what type of tissue they can be found to be fruiting from.

 

It's about progressive degrees of dysfunction and vascular channels.

 

Sapro's can colonise 'dysfunctional' woody volumes before those volumes are dead, so this is why you are seeing the fruitbodies on 'live' tissue.

 

Something else has created the dysfunction on this willow, probably the previous pruning works.

 

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[Marc Lewis]

Thank you David.