Dead Horse Chestnut Fell

[Mozza]

Yes me, Stevie and Dean were thinking the same!!!!!!!!!!

 

:lol:

 

Nice fall Tim

[scotspine1]

agh yes that explains the aggresive speed of the colonisation particulary the cambial zone before serious breakdown of the woody substrate a typical of the white rots, hence the still dark colouration inthe wood.

 

good shots, love a bit of rot!

 

Check out the tall Yew to the left of the HC, the HC has been fighting the Honey Fungus for years but the Yew is fine, why? cause Yew's resistant to honey fungus, yew gettit?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Check out the tall Yew to the left of the HC, the HC has been fighting the Honey Fungus for years but the Yew is fine, why? cause Yew's resistant to honey fungus, yew gettit?

 

to be fair Honey or armillaria mellea is ubiquitous in the soil, most trees have a level of resistance, iether through good health or michorizae associations, its really the weak and old that sucumb to the grim reaper of trees.

 

I believ A. gallica on the other hand is a bit more aggressive, and then there is A. ostoyae of course and A. tabescens too!

[Dean Lofthouse]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought honey fungus was a natural rotting mechanism ever present in the soil where there is organic matter to break down and trees only sucumb to it if there is a weakness or wound, sort of a natural survival of the fitest.

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought honey fungus was a natural rotting mechanism ever present in the soil where there is organic matter to break down and trees only sucumb to it if there is a weakness or wound, sort of a natural survival of the fitest.

 

 

thats right dean, as i said above.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Honey is feared and loathed, but it is one of the major garbage disposers in nature, death of weak or sick trees ensures only the strongest genes get passed on, honey is the mechanism, or rather one of the major ones.

 

just another part of a beuatiful complex system.

[Dean Lofthouse]

thats right dean, as i said above.

 

Oops, sorry Tony, thats you using those big words again

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Oops, sorry Tony, thats you using those big words again

 

[scotspine1]

Honey is feared and loathed

 

Good, lets hope it stays that way, because a known pathogen of trees is bad news for anyone who values trees.

[nepia]

Honey is feared and loathed, but it is one of the major garbage disposers in nature, death of weak or sick trees ensures only the strongest genes get passed on, honey is the mechanism, or rather one of the major ones.

 

just another part of a beuatiful complex system.

 

So if an apparently healthy 100-year old (very -ish) pine suddenly declines due to HF you'd reckon that its days would have been numbered anyway, without the HF?

 

Serious question by the way; I'm not doubting you or trying to catch you out. I am watching such a tree on behalf of someone.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon