Ganoderma?? What now?

[buffalo606]

Found on the base of a dead Ash tree. 

 

Firstly, is it ganoderma? 

 

What is the safest way (and time of year) to remove this tree esp with a view to reducing the fungi spreading to the rest of the avenue of mature ash?  

 

The customer was previously told "fell and remove it on a hot day midsummer to reduce risk of spores spreading".  This advice is new to me.. 

[buffalo606]

[daltontrees]

Not Ganoderma. Possibly Perenniporia fraxinea.

 

Put a bag around the brackets, chisel them off, will not get rid of it but there won't be nay more spores for a year.

[buffalo606]

1 hour ago, daltontrees said:

Not Ganoderma. Possibly Perenniporia fraxinea.

 

Put a bag around the brackets, chisel them off, will not get rid of it but there won't be nay more spores for a year.

P fraxinea sounds more like it - I think the spores are white.  Will check tomorrow (as the tree is outside my kitchen window!) 

 

I'm now trying to minimise the spread of spores to the other nearby mature ash.  Maybe best to completely and carefully remove the brackets and then the tree?  Without delay? 

[daltontrees]

Urgency depnds on what might get hit when it fails at the base, particularly if it has any lean. But removing the brackets probably only needs to be done annually to prevent spore dispersal. Some suggest removing the brackets will stimulate more to grow immediately but I don't believe this as I think the annual fruiting is triggered internally, something to do with CO2 concentrations. It would be interesting to know what happens if you do remove them. It can only help. Fruiting body growth takes all its energy untimately from decaying the tree.