Failure and a fungus!

[RobRainford]

Spotted these whilst out and about today, the failure was in the middle of the local park, girlfriend actually spotted it, i think im rubbing off a bit on her haha!

 

Lime failure, pretty hollow inside, could get my head in at the bottom and was hollow as far as i could see even with a light. Dropped pretty much half of its crown, seemed otherwise healthy.

 

Some FBs on an oak aswell, couple of the buttresses seem to be a bit worse for wear. From what my fungi book tells me, are these Ganoderma resinacium?

[Graham]

Not sure if the Gano is an issue here. Seems to be a failure of an old pollard union. I could be wrong though.

[Mesterh]

Not sure if the Gano is an issue here. Seems to be a failure of an old pollard union. I could be wrong though.

 

 

Although I'll go down the inclusive bark, co dominant stem route.

[RobRainford]

The gano is on a different tree to the one with the failure. It seems like there was a rot pocket formed on the failed limb along with some included bark.

 

There were some strong winds blowing today. Very gusty.

[Graham]

The gano is on a different tree to the one with the failure. It seems like there was a rot pocket formed on the failed limb along with some included bark.

 

There were some strong winds blowing today. Very gusty.

 

Sorry....misread first post. I see you mentioned oak now:001_smile:

[Tom2020]

Seen a few trees today with the wind going side to side few branchs all over the place some small and some fairy big Been a fun day out and about in the park

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The gano looks a bit more phelinus igniarius for me, the tube layer turning cinnamon is a give away, and resi is annual, your bracket is perennial.

 

could be adspersum/australe but I doubt it.

[RobRainford]

Well I'll go by what you say Hama. I used my new Collins fungi book and I thought it was a gano. But I'm still not very clued up about which fungi do what. As in when they come out to play!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

ive just seen that there is a brown spore mass, probably adspersum/australe, lip is thick also, dont take too much notice of peoples opinion on photographic evidence, it just isnt cricket.

 

they say the camera never lies....

 

thats a lie!