Kretzschmaria deusta and Ooze

[Bart]

Been watching this Beech closely since last may when I first noticed it was host to K. deusta, last May there were only two patches showing and a few minor bacterial cankers (vid).

This year K. deusta seems to be more prevalent with the addition of some type of bacterial ooze, and quite an impressive bleeding canker.

 

1&2 Emerging immature fruiting bodies

3,4&5 K. deusta, and possibly some bacterial ooze

6. Mature fruiting body of K. deusta

7&8 Bleeding canker on opposite side of trunk

9. Bleeding canker and cracking on compression side buttress

10. Whole tree

 

Video from last may showing K. deusta, target and the tree

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsCHVclgPlA]YouTube - Kretzschmaria deusta on large Beech[/ame]

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[Paul Barton]

Great pics there Bart.

 

Here is some and a neighbouring old Ganoderma bracket on an old Hornbeam I saw last week.

 

It also had a lot of areas of exudate higher up the stem.

[Bart]

Cheers misterTee, nice bit of tandem decay going on.

[David Humphries]

Fine series of shots and vid there Bart.

 

 

Butress roots look (from safe cyber seatage) sound and functional.

Canopy is obviously sparse.

Any history of Meripilus aswell?

 

I don't recall having seen bleeding just associated with Kretz before, quite often I do see it on butresses that have Ganoderma pfeifferi.

 

Returned to this Beeech today, that has a quarter of its butress roots completely desicated.

But note the adventitious roots forming on either side of the perished ones.

Not seen this one in leaf since last summer, but may opt to reduce as it's not paticularly open to targets.

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Fine series of shots and vid there Bart.

 

 

Butress roots look (from safe cyber seatage) sound and functional.

Canopy is obviously sparse.

Any history of Meripilus aswell?

 

I don't recall having seen bleeding just associated with Kretz before, quite often I do see it on butresses that have Ganoderma pfeifferi.

 

Returned to this Beeech today, that has a quarter of its butress roots completely desicated.

But note the adventitious roots forming on either side of the perished ones.

Not seen this one in leaf since last summer, but may opt to reduce as it's not paticularly open to targets.

 

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Lets hope for a staged retrenchment of those (all) to get them to a stage where it is accseptable to let them stand and mybe overcome the defective portions, like this sample!

 

[David Humphries]

Lets hope for a staged retrenchment of those (all) to get them to a stage where it is accseptable to let them stand and mybe overcome the defective portions, like this sample!

 

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That's the general idea

 

 

Not sure Bart has that luxury though?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

we (generaly) dont give trees half the credit they deserve for surviving, felled before they have a chance in hell of altering thier situation.

[Bart]

Cheers Dave. Nice pics, the adventitious roots are cool

Never seen any Meripilus about that area. Read in Bob Watson's book that the lesions/cankers could be assosiated with Kretz and maybe also the reddish bleeding canker?

[Bart]

That’s an awesome tree Tony

No plans to do anything yet, it looked a bit chlorotic last year so just wait and see what happens this year. A staged retrenchment would be nice, ill certainly try and conserve it for as long as possible.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That’s an awesome tree Tony

No plans to do anything yet, it looked a bit chlorotic last year so just wait and see what happens this year. A staged retrenchment would be nice, ill certainly try and conserve it for as long as possible.

 

Good lad, watch out for the reduction police though! :thumbup: