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[Matthew Arnold]

Matt,

I. cuticularis on branches ?

 

What do you recon it might be then Gerrit?

[Fungus]

What do you recon it might be then

 

Matt,

Looking at the first photo, I would sooner think of one of the many pioneer white rotters active on/in oak branches, such as Vuilleminia comedens or Peniophora quercina and/or Tremella mesenterica as a parasite on the mycelium of the Peniophora, which cause the bark to fall off and then (partially) white rot the dead wood of the branches before they fall to the ground.

[RobArb]

hope i've got this right:blush

 

i'm gonna go with G. pfeifferi but doesn't it cause a white rot not brown?

 

Was on a large Sorbus intermedia

 

 

also pics of further up the tree where an old limb was shed in high winds (a few years ago) showing some awesome rot patterns

[Matthew Arnold]

Wood turners would pay a fair price for that. The rot hasnt quite got that bad yet.

[RobArb]

large cherry with old basal wound and brown rot, it came down....

[RobArb]

Wood turners would pay a fair price for that. The rot hasnt quite got that bad yet.

 

it went for firewood:thumbdown:

 

nowt i could do about it:sneaky2:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Matt,

I. cuticularis on branches ?

 

 

No not branches, limb bases and extending into scaffolds:thumbup1:

[Fungus]

I. cuticularis on branches ?

 

Matt,

Today I visited an exhibition on fungi in Essen (Germany), where this (very rare ?) documentation of canker caused by I. nodulosus on a branch of a beech was shown.

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Matt,

Today I visited an exhibition on fungi in Essen (Germany), where this (very rare ?) documentation of canker caused by I. nodulosus on a branch of a beech was shown.

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I am still trying to work out what Inonotus nodulosus looks like in the flesh, seen a few images but nothing to get my head round, its rare here for certain.

 

confined to beech as far as i can tell and that cankered branch is very interesting.

[Fungus]

I am still trying to work out what Inonotus nodulosus looks like in the flesh, seen a few images but nothing to get my head round, its rare here for certain ... confined to beech

 

Tony,

This is what I. nodulosus normally looks like when it is fruiting on the side of horizontal trunks on the forestfloor or on the vertical saw cut surface of old beeches. I've never seen it fruit on branches or trunks of living, still standing beeches.

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