Decay images

[David Humphries]

Phellinus ignarius on Salix.

 

White rot.

 

Brackets in situe.

 

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[David Humphries]

Phellinus ignarius on Salix.

White rot.

Brackets in situe.

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Close ups & decay shot.

 

 

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Edited May 23, 2011 by Monkey-D

[David Humphries]

More classical fruitbody shape, from bracket further down on the main trunk adjacent to the woodpecker hole & the small forming bracket.

 

 

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[sloth]

Some documentation on a pedunculate oak extremely brown rotted by L. sulphureus, of which the upper part of the trunk and the crown were blown off landing several metres away from the remaining trunk during a last years autumn storm. Luckely it fell to the side of a (in a storm) not much used cycle track and not on the very busy road to the left in the first photo.

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What do/did you make of this?

[Fungus]

More classical fruitbody shape, from bracket further down on the main trunk adjacent to the woodpecker hole & the small forming bracket.

 

Contrary to what would be expected from the extensive white rot of the wood, the brackets do not show the species specific panic fruiting as shown in my photo, so there still must be enough cellulose left for the mycelium to produce "normal" annual reproductive layers of tubes on top of one another.

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

What do/did you make of this?

 

common roadside damage, a car has left the road and hit the tree.

 

the wound wood ribs have buckles indicating significant decay behind the dry grey cap of the scar

[Fungus]

common roadside damage, a car has left the road and hit the tree. the wound wood ribs have buckles indicating significant decay behind the dry grey cap of the scar

 

I don't notice these damaged and sometimes even partially burnt trees anymore, because alongside this very busy road, 2 out of 10 oaks and beeches were hit by cars or grass mowers. And I suspect this oak is infected with L. sulphureus too and could be "blown away" in a next storm just as the front tree was, but that is the responsability of the local authorities, as they are the owners and managers of both the road and the hundreds of trees in the verges.

[Tom D]

You can see the story with this one, historic entry point, fungus and failure.

 

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[Fungus]

You can see the story with this one, historic entry point, fungus and failure.

 

Tom,

This one being which tree species ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tom,

This one being which tree species ?

 

sycamore?