Fungi and tree defect morning check.

[Matthew Arnold]

Whilst doing a check on a new peice of land we have just started to manage. The site is mentioned in the Doomsday book. I found some rather nice mature oaks with some less pleasant fungi growing from them.I know one of the fungi growing off a pair of oaks is Inonotus dryadeus but i am not sure about the rest. As we have found these fungi we have informed the relevant local authority to come and survey the trees ASAP. The pics show the fungi/ defects and proximity to roads and houses. The defects are fairly obvious but there is an oak with what looks like the start of a split running from the base up the trunk. I apolgise for the large number of pictures.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Crikey, if thats a large number of photographs, me and david are in serious trouble! lol

 

they look otherwise vital and healthy, should take managment objectives/specs with ease.

[David Humphries]

I'm sure they're not, but the two brackets with the slug dont arf look like desicated versions of your Radlet Oak Pips Hammy.

 

 

 

 

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[Bundle 2]

Dont like the looks of that there split forming on the stem...(frame 6) Looks fairly recent to me!

[Matthew Arnold]

lol. i forgot to add more pictures last night. The split in pic 6 is very fresh (still had a litle bit of sap seepage) but i have a picture that has quite possibly the most obvious split on it. One of my colleagues thinks it can be braced. I couldnt beleive it. And i have an image of a fungi that we have alot of on our site growing on Blackthorn and Plums but i cant find it in any our fungi id books. It causes white rot and brown rot. Any ideas?

[David Humphries]

Matt the fungi in your last shot looks to be Phellinus tuburculosus.

 

Phellinus tuberculosus - David Humphries’s Fungi Directory - Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Weve had the tree officers and 4 tree surgeons look at all of the trees that had defects and fungi and the oaks will be reduced and balanced. The pair next to the road are going to be kept as habitat pollards so if they do fall over it will pretty muc be just a stub rather than a massive crown blocking the road. The field maple has been condemned and will be felled completely. We will be doing the easier bits and a very slow coppice regime of a pair of 1000 year old Ash coppice stools. We have a nice big section of hazel hedge to lay this year.