CODIT, Branch Attachments and the like.

[Patchwork]

And another one...

 

So-called "life belt" at Merrist Wood. According to Guy Watson, the instructor of the Professional Tree Inspection course, who had put the Resistograph through the belt of this particular one, the wood was sound as. Loads of oak trees on campus had these, they're thinking it's genetic. That is, the tree people are thinking. The trees probably couldn't give a toss.

 

we had to do a tree report on that at merrist wood a few months back. cant remember much about it tho, is the life belt due to the fact that the stem very straight with alot of weight in the crown and the tree had put on reactive growth to fiber buckling?

[Peter]

Some pics of an old sycamore pollard I dismantled.

 

 

 

 

[Peter]

More. The last pic is a section about 3 feet down the stem from the pollard.

 

 

[Arob]

Here's a couple of old girls, first 2 showing 'layering' (terminology alert!) branch touches ground, roots (speculation - didn't check it had rooted) and then grows stronger as moves away from canopy.

 

Third one shows adaptation to rock (is it stabilising or trying to bridge obstruction, or a bit of both?)

[Marc]

Nice pics arob.

[Arob]

Thanks Marc, but can't take any credit, was great to come upon grand old ladies like those.

[Topper]

This pic shows a virtual river of mycellia inside a birch.

You can even see where one of the vessels has been full and snapped off when i removed the bulk of the trunk

 

got lots more............

[nuggsy]

Fungi zone lines on cross-section of Beech, Armillaria mellea and Kretschmaria(Ustilina) deusta were active within this tree.

 

or also known as spalting spalted beech, very nice to turn with but can b very britle at times gets a wee bit scary wen it decides 2 snap n hit me in the head lol