Lime Tree Kretzschmaria Deusta

[AdamBa]

Hi,

I have a large 25m+ Lime Tree and I've been told it has an established case of Kretzschmaria Deusta by one tree surgeon.   There was a tree report completed by an Arboricultural Consultant 5 years ago (before I purchased the house) and in this report it noted "fungus, young fruiting body, unidentifiable".   I guess in the last 5 years the fungus has developed and can now be identified.   Please can someone explain what the likely outcome is for this fantastic tree?   I've read several different things online and I fear there may be no choice other than to fell it?   To add some context, you can easily pull away some rotten wood at the base where the disease is and the tree is 10m from my house and about 8m from my neighbours house.   I don't want to fell the tree, but if it's dangerous I guess there is no choice.....especially as I don't have unlimited funds.

Thanks in advance.

[voj maintenance]

I'm not an expert here by any means and would even welcome the opinions of others but surely this condition of the tree is not going to get any better, only worse over time. Being in what the op describes as a high target area the only sensible action should be remove the tree. Even if it was pollarded it could still fail and pose a danger.

[Sequoia]

Here's a Lime with K. deusta that we took down 3 years ago.  We made the decision to fell as K. deusta is a difficult one to assess, being such a small fruit body.  And being a low union this close to a building just added to the anxiety.  The weight of this tree was 38 tonnes - 2 lorry loads to get off site + 4 chip boxes.

[David Humphries]

11 minutes ago, Sequoia said:

Here's a Lime with K. deusta that we took down 3 years ago.  We made the decision to fell as K. deusta is a difficult one to assess, being such a small fruit body.  And being a low union this close to a building just added to the anxiety.  The weight of this tree was 38 tonnes - 2 lorry loads to get off site + 4 chip boxes.

Big tree, earn't ya pay on that one.

 

any cross section shots of the decay?

[Sequoia]

14 minutes ago, David Humphries said:

Big tree, earn't ya pay on that one.

 

any cross section shots of the decay?

You can see the extent of decay here.

[David Humphries]

4 minutes ago, Sequoia said:

You can see the extent of decay here.

 

Looked to be a fairly thick residual wall thickness uncolonised by the Kretz decay in that image.

 

but can imagine the nervous nature of the client with that thing towering over the property.

 

 

 

[Khriss]

Ooo massive tree - big targets ! Fab job tho' K

[Sequoia]

16 minutes ago, David Humphries said:

 

Looked to be a fairly thick residual wall thickness uncolonised by the Kretz decay in that image.

 

but can imagine the nervous nature of the client with that thing towering over the property.

 

 

 

Yes, you are correct.  I don't have DD equipment so assessment was made from VTA.  I try not to be alarmist with clients, but wasn't prepared to risk PI insurance on this one.

[Marula]

Big tree, job well done done[emoji1360]. Is that articulated yours?