Is this Ganoderma on this Beech?

[j_s]

Could anyone please tell me if this is Ganoderma on this Beech tree?

 

 

 

 

[Paul Barton]

Pics don't work for me?

[j_s]

 

 

 

[Bundle 2]

Kind of hard to see.The brackets look to have a crusted and cracking top surface....Is that about right?

If so, I would say probably White Trunk rot (aka Phellinus igniarius)

Looks typical at the base to me. Typical strategy, emerging higher up the stem. It moves quite quick. Intense white rot of the stem. Often no signs from the canopy. (til later stages)

All the same, perhaps a second opinion would be helpful...?

 

edit...I m really not convinced it is Phellinus now I look again at those images mate! Sorry!

[j_s]

The top surface is crusted and cracked, the new growth has only recently started. There's a fair amount of dead smaller branches in the canopy, do you think I need to get a consultant to have a look, as it's near a building and at the top of a steep bank?

[j_s]

Also took some pictures of a Fungi on an ash tree, any ideas?

 

 

[Giles Hill]

Polyporus for the ones on the ash.

 

I think the bottom one of the beech pics is Ustulina

[David Humphries]

Polyporus squamosus - Dryads saddle as Giles said for the ones on Ash.

 

Dont agree with the ustulina though Giles.

 

I think the last shot on the Beech set show an older desicated bigger bracket.

 

Can't give an Id though.

 

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[Giles Hill]

Polyporus squamosus - Dryads saddle as Giles said for the ones on Ash.

 

Dont agree with the ustulina though Giles.

 

I think the last shot on the Beech set show an older desicated bigger bracket.

 

Can't give an Id though.

 

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I think the bottom one on the beech might not be Ustulina.

[Bundle 2]

I would say monitor the development of the bracket(s) and keep us posted with some images. Perhaps we will know more as the story unfolds?

Tim