The Ganoderma thread!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

. By the way, I don't think the late Mr. Pfeiffer would have liked seeing his name written wrong all the time .

 

ha ha, lsiten i have enough of a hard time spelling english let alone latin!

[Matthew Arnold]

Found this one on a small leaning Ash on a nature reserve we have just (last week) taken on. The plan of action for the site is any standing deadwood will be made safe (fracture pruned, coronetted,etc) into a habitat stick and the branch wood left around the fall zone as a dead hedge. Any living trees will be ivy banded to see any defects and we will react accordingly. We will give the site a general tidy (any partially fallen trees tidied up, deadwood stacked into heaps, recoppice old hedgerow trees). There is a small amount of scrap metal that we will be clearing around as we have already seen a Grass Snake basking under a tin sheet on the site.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Found this one on a small leaning Ash on a nature reserve we have just (last week) taken on. The plan of action for the site is any standing deadwood will be made safe (fracture pruned, coronetted,etc) into a habitat stick and the branch wood left around the fall zone as a dead hedge. Any living trees will be ivy banded to see any defects and we will react accordingly. We will give the site a general tidy (any partially fallen trees tidied up, deadwood stacked into heaps, recoppice old hedgerow trees). There is a small amount of scrap metal that we will be clearing around as we have already seen a Grass Snake basking under a tin sheet on the site.

 

This is cleary highly parasitic so I would go with G. australe (microscope to be 100%)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Some lovely examples of decay here, im not going to talk about these too much but willing to discuss the images if requested. I will however say that my whole point and purpose of THIS thread was to illustrate and inform on the potential of these bracket fungi and this week I have been reminded of just how little attention is paid to the often very different characteristics and strategies in this very variable group. I Hope that over the years this thread will act as witness and illustrate in no uncertain terms the clear hazard potential of SOME of these forms in SOME of thier diverse relationships.

 

What we must ALWAYS stress is that each tree is an individual and MUST be treated as such, the trees morphology can play a vital role in the duration of survivability when colonised by Ganodermas.

 

It is not the intention to provide a catalogue of justification for lazy or poor judgements on trees colonised by Ganodermas, advice should be sought from decay specialists before drastic and quiet often unessential work is carried out.

 

 

 

[sean freeman]

... I will however say that my whole point and purpose of THIS thread was to illustrate and inform on the potential of these bracket fungi and this week I have been reminded of just how little attention is paid to the often very different characteristics and strategies in this very variable group. I Hope that over the years this thread will act as witness and illustrate ...the clear hazard potential of SOME of these forms in SOME of thier diverse relationships.

 

What we must ALWAYS stress is that each tree is an individual and MUST be treated as such, the trees morphology can play a vital role in the duration of survivability when colonised by Ganodermas.

 

It is not the intention to provide a catalogue of justification for lazy or poor judgements on trees colonised by Ganodermas, advice should be sought from decay specialists before drastic and quiet often unessential work is carried out.

 

Very well put :thumbup1:and [iMO] an essential clarification to those of us that would be mentally lazy...yes I have been one, and still catch myself being so every now and again:blushing:

[Fungus]

Documentation of G. australe on very old Abies alba.

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[MattyF]

What do you recon to this then reduce,fell,dead wood?..going with a fell for obvious reasons sorry for not to good phone pics!

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Shame to fell , when the late summer of when I had left school and just started Doing tree work we did a demo for the International tree foundation that was published with photos in house and gardens or something ! Magazine...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

why fell? good reduction, phasing retrenchment, there is no targets?

 

but the trees goose is well and truly cooked, so perfectly justifiable.

[MattyF]

Personally I think it will die if reduced which would be an embarrassment for me and at the same time look awfull because there is no inner canopy that's not dead already and look an insult to the tree! There is another one about 200ft away really dead canopy but loads of regrowth flushing but that has no decay fungi at base what so ever.... That tree would hit the house if fails though ,maybe does not show from that angle...

[RobArb]

how about literally chopping it in half:blush: and keeping all the low stuff untouched

 

a bit aggressive and not great practice but the tree remains, it won't hit the house if it falls, and there is enough foliage left for photosynthesis even though it would be a harsh procedure

 

just a thought anyway....