Comments re decay

[Tim Ashburner]

Interested to hear how this is / was compromised

[Khriss]

Probably by someone nearby with a chainsaw 😋

 

 At a glance,  tap root decay working its way up and around through the tree' life span. No evident fungal brackets. Looks like a busy road location K

[Tim Ashburner]

No evidence of fungal fruiting bodies and no dull sound when tested with hammer. However, crown was sparse / tree stressed.

[Khriss]

In its location 'thats coming out'  probably lashed with salt too, pity  😐 K

[Chris at eden]

Kretz

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Chris at eden said:

Kretz

Probably and something else from those black lines (pseudo schlerotic plates?) was entry from that bark damage showing compensatory wound occlusion at the bottom of the photo?

[Michael h]

1 hour ago, Chris at eden said:

Kretz

Agree kretzschmaria is probably main pathogen, the black lines (pseudosclerotial plates) and lack of obvious decay evident on sounding is indicative. the wood associated with the tap root will have been "eaten" by another fungi.

Salt and the inevitable grass cutter damage won't have helped.

 

[Michael h]

7 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Probably and something else from those black lines (pseudo schlerotic plates?) was entry from that bark damage showing compensatory wound occlusion at the bottom of the photo?

Looks to have occluded quite a few wounds in it's time, entry will probably have been from one of those.