Roadside Decay

[Fungus]

1. look to the right of the bracket and level with it, the stain is there, fruit body is in an elevated position exposed to winds, rarely to high ganos get the build up of spore associated with thier kind, the breeze carries them away to easily.

2. a fresh layer IMO has formed and only just begun sporalating too.

 

Tony,

1. As said before, the reddish stains could also originate from guttation dripping down and locally colouring the pores and bark red. And I have seen hundreds of Fomitopsis pinicola with this particular type of brackets when fruiting at higher altitude too.

2. The fresh layer of pores of Fomitopsis pinicola is yellowish (as in the photo), not white as of Ganoderma and it is not (visible) stained by the white spores, but reddish by drying guttation.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

 

[David Humphries]

David,

Did you identify the species ? To me it looks a lot like a perennial bracket of Fomitopsis pinicola, which causes brown rot in this beech.

 

No never did, going back to this area in a couple of months, will go take another look at the bracket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

O.K gerrit, this ones a blast for me, total loss, is this your fomitopsis pinicola?

 

[Fungus]

this ones a blast for me, total loss, is this your fomitopsis pinicola?

 

Although rather atypical, it could, provided the spores are white.

[David Humphries]

Not a big issue by itself, (and not even one of my trees) but these Coprinus micaceus on this Plane are a secondary infection due to the dysfunction on the roadside basal section of the trunk & roots.

 

Will keep an eye on it to see what else comes out to play & how this one progresses.

 

 

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[Fungus]

these Coprinus micaceus on this Plane are a secondary infection due to the dysfunction on the roadside basal section of the trunk & roots. Will keep an eye on it to see what else comes out to play & how this one progresses.

 

Did you notice the crumbling black charcoal like bark, as if the trunk's base has been set on fire ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Did you notice the crumbling black charcoal like bark, as if the trunk's base has been set on fire ?

 

what is causing it? Diatrype?

[Fungus]

what is causing it? Diatrype?

 

It seems far to rough and irregular for Diatrype stigma, besides D. stigma is a saprotrophic dead cambium decayer, which only shows itself after it throws off the bark, i.e. doesn't fruit on the outside of the bark. If it is a Pyrenomycete with ostioles and perithecia, it could be a Hypoxylon species or K. deusta.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think both David and I are more than able to spot the Kretz, gotta be a hypoxylon.