Roadside Decay

[felixthelogchopper]

Horse chestnut with Armillaria melea

 

Will be interesting to see next years spring flush (if at all)

 

 

in leaf shots from may last year.

out of leaf from this morning.

 

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Got one in an identical state where I am. Looked very poorly all this year so going to see what it looks like next year before deciding what to do with it.

[David Humphries]

out doing a perimeter drive by after the storms of the weekend and came across a neighbouring LA's London Plane with what appears to be a dessicated Inonotus hispidus bracket on a major scaffold at height.

 

Have informed them, as they may wan't to take a closer look.

 

 

 

 

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[daltontrees]

It's hard to see, is that coming out of a natural branch collar breakage point or a pruning wound?

[David Humphries]

I didn't have binos at hand, but I thought it was fruiting from an old pruning wound Jules

 

 

 

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[daltontrees]

Lookign at adjacent street light, building and so forth suggests past pruning. The wounds on the other substem seem to have closed over quite well.Maybe the tree will nip this I.h off.

[David Humphries]

We're finding hispidus more and more in association with London Plane here in the Capital and across East Anglia.

 

Where we have carried out climbing inspections, there have often been cavities within the core of the trees. The outer volumes appear to be able hold off the decay apart from where the wound interface is.

Be that from pruning or storm damage.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

A timely removal of a random ash I passed by last week up near Rugby

 

Heavily colinised by Perenipporia fraxinea and leaning toward the road.

 

 

 

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[Joe Newton]

A timely removal of a random ash I passed by last week up near Rugby

 

 

 

Heavily colinised by Perenipporia fraxinea and leaning toward the road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Whereabouts was it David, I don't recognise it?

 

Was it your lot doing the work?

[David Humphries]

Whereabouts was it David, I don't recognise it?

 

Was it your lot doing the work?

 

on the A428 just past the Crick Marina east of J18 of the M1

 

 

Nothing to do with my team Joe, (we rarely leave the sanctuary of the M25 ) I just clocked it whilst returning home to Suffolk from a conference near Coventry

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Oak with Grifola frondosa on an internal road at the Royal Holloway University Campus.

 

Also a couple of unknown Ganoderma fruit bodies starting to develop out of the trunk wound.

 

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