Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Any ideas on what fung caused this to happen on this wee Prunus?

 

And can anyone flip the pics?

 

And... Ignore my gormless mug, best one I got:lol:

 

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White mycelium points me towards laetiporus, however I may be wrong.

 

Especialy thinking that way as it is Cherry/Prunus but it is not brown rot, so I would say this is a ganoderma, though p. squamosus can also have mycelial sheets but Ganos are classic for this in forks

[RobArb]

It was Gano Tony:thumbup:

 

(plus, already had this Convo with your work colleague, Tom:biggrin:)

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Two Kretz related failures caused by the recent winds. I only got a picture of the Sycamore stump as the rest of the tree was stretching through 4 gardens. It isnt our site (yet) but talking to one of the residents all they heard was this very loud bang and saw their shed and greenhouse flattened by this monster. The wind was actually blowing the opposite direction to which it fell.

[Matthew Arnold]

Nothing too exciting just a sunseeking limb failing when a pair of amorous pigeons were getting jiggy on the end of it. Hoping to leave the natural coronet for bugs, beasties n fungi. The tree is already hollow but has a very strong union where the two main stems branch off.

[sean]

Thje photo's here do not do this fine sycamore justice at all.......its a whopper.

 

Bad news.......one of its limbs took a battering in the wind resulting in a beautiful natural fracture.......the good news....i finally get to climb a tree i drive past often and have wanted to climb for ages.....

 

You can see the failed limb standing on its tips in the right of the picture.....and the resulting fracture in others.....

[David Humphries]

Thje photo's here do not do this fine sycamore justice at all.......its a whopper.

 

Bad news.......one of its limbs took a battering in the wind resulting in a beautiful natural fracture.......the good news....i finally get to climb a tree i drive past often and have wanted to climb for ages.....

 

You can see the failed limb standing on its tips in the right of the picture.....and the resulting fracture in others.....

 

 

 

 

Fine looking woody thing

[Matthew Arnold]

A rather spectacular failure of 3 limbs off one of our big Beeches. It failed this morning but was only reported at 5 this evening. We have deemed it safe (although we have closed the footpath off) as the limbs have settled to their final resting position. There was no warning the limbs were going to fail. Now we will be thinking about a reduction of the far reaching limbs and crown lifting the very lowest limbs.

[MWArb]

Ash stem failure at Cadwell park

 

 

 

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[sloth]

Quite spectacular! Note tr ratio, I'd say a bit less than 0.3, and most of the stem. Not a full crown any more though!. Lovely tree, what's its fate?

[MWArb]

Quite spectacular! Note tr ratio, I'd say a bit less than 0.3, and most of the stem. Not a full crown any more though!. Lovely tree, what's its fate?

 

Unsure as to it's fate right now.. everything on the floor is gone obviously.. believe it or not under that mess is a set of concrete steps and some rather destroyed railings.. as for the stem I guess it'll either be de-limbed or taken out... Personally I feel it has pollarding properties as there is growth just under the bottom of the failure but it'll be up to Cadwell themselves I guess.