beech limb failure with Fomes

[sean]

This limb failed this morning. Some fantastic Fomes brackets.....one of them v.big. Extensive white rot caused by Fomes?

Tree was earmarked for a reduction in the Autumn....oh well looks like nature got there before us.

[armchairarborist]

nice..clip clop:thumbup1:

[David Humphries]

What a fantastic rack of brackets

 

Did you manage to get a close up of the underside of the big one with the holes/fissures (?) in it.

 

Looks like something is either boring in to the pore surface or maybe pecker after something already inside

 

This at R P sean?

 

 

 

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[Tree Man Tom]

Nice, do you think the added weight of the new leaf was enough to finally make the branch fail?

[sean]

Nice, do you think the added weight of the new leaf was enough to finally make the branch fail?

 

i think so.

[sean]

What a fantastic rack of brackets

 

 

 

 

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Did you manage to get a close up of the underside of the big one with the holes/fissures (?) in it.

 

Looks like something is either boring in to the pore surface or maybe pecker after something already inside

 

This at R P sean?

 

No close up unfortunately David......Deer crap everywhere.......but for you.....i shall.........delegate!

 

Was In Richmond Park yes.......Willow limb, horsechestnut limb, Oak Limb and Beech Limb all gone in the last couple of days. Big HC failure in Bushey Park too today. I'm sure added weight of leaves is a contributing factor.

[David Humphries]

Was In Richmond Park yes.......Willow limb, horsechestnut limb, Oak Limb and Beech Limb all gone in the last couple of days. Big HC failure in Bushey Park too today. I'm sure added weight of leaves is a contributing factor.

 

 

I'm sure mission control must be fairly twitchy over those.

Fair bit of wind & rain in London as well over the weekend.

 

we lost a nice Oak, a couple of fair sized Willow limbs & a fractured/de-laminated red oak limb

 

 

Ooh err.................

 

 

 

 

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[Bundle 2]

Definitely Fomes....some great pics in there!

[chris cnc]

second pic, the surface of the bracket is almost identical to the beech bark, camouflaged haha

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I would kill to have one of those fomes brackets!