What is this!!!!!!!

[TonyP]

Hi all

can anyone let me know what is happening to these tree's as i have no idea.Both tree's belong to same customer.The oak tree is oozing and smells like vinegar???

 

Thanks

Tony

[scott995]

This might help

 

Forestry Commission - News - new guidance on oak tree disease published

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The beech has a very active fungal colonisation, and is probably on the way out.

 

the Oak, well not much of an image, but looking at that single clorotic limb, I might suggest colybia fusipes.

[TonyP]

Thanks guys for your help.The oozing on the oak is at the base of the tree not on a limb and was oozing whilst i was there.I will let the customer know about the beech tree but wot would u recommend we do with the oak???

Thanks

Tony

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I missed what you wrote about the vinegur smell, and I also missed that some of the close ups where the oak!

 

dont write iether tree off just yet, theres no major die back in iether of them as yet, and there would be if the problem was severe. Many of these "decline" symptoms are a short term glitch in a trees history.

 

i have an Oak that was riddled with the bleeding scars two years agao, clean as a whistle now and looking just swell.

 

Every tree is an individual, and everytree is a complex organism with a complex micro habitat and ecology associated with it, there are just sooo many varibles due to this that there simply cannot be a simple answer and certainly not one got via phot images online.

 

We can only make very basic judgments this way, there is no substitute for seeing the patcient first hand, theres so many visual clues that are missed in an image.

 

Context

associated organisms

human interactions

all sorts of things that need to be put together to create an image of a trees world scenario.

 

but if it helps i dont think iether are going to fal down tonight! but the beech does need a full and confidently made appraisal, it may be Kretschmaria deusta generating those bleeds so DO have this one looked over by a consulting aborist who knows his way around decay.

[travis]

my oak tree was doing the same thing with the sap and smell.

the sap has dried up two months later, but there is a 5" split in the bark,

and look like it may split in other areas.

[TonyP]

ok thanks again for all your help. i will tell the customer when i see him friday