Inonotus hispidus

[chris cnc]

Came across this large Inonotus hispidus bracket on an ash today- first time I've found this one so i thought I'd share.

 

One of the ash's two stems has already failed and the tree shows a lot of swelling around the base.

[Matthew Arnold]

Rather a nice bit of burring on the snapped limb. Would be good for turning with all the spalting in there.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

youll not get spalting off hispidus. mainly the xylariaceae that spalt wood.

 

Nice shots of a very low bracket, keep your eyes on the body language of decay, later i will be posting the "seven sisters" a group of old ash trees that I shot today.

 

Note the epicormic production around the wounds/necroses caused by Inonotus hispidus, a very important retrenching fungi is the Hispidus on ash.

[Matthew Arnold]

youll not get spalting off hispidus. mainly the xylariaceae that spalt wood.

 

Nice shots of a very low bracket, keep your eyes on the body language of decay, later i will be posting the "seven sisters" a group of old ash trees that I shot today.

 

Note the epicormic production around the wounds/necroses caused by Inonotus hispidus, a very important retrenching fungi is the Hispidus on ash.

 

I was thinking more of the burring/canker causing bateria that would create spalting. Or the fungi that get into those little cracks and crevices you dont see.

[chris cnc]

you may be interested Hama, in the small cavity opening visible above the bracket in this pic. The cavity shows brown rotted wood, while the snapped limb is more characteristic of a white rot. Thus the tree is in an advanced state of decay.

 

i think.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The ripe wood of ash goes brown even in the pressence of white rots, confusing i know, its oxydization, have you ever noticed the pink flush of fresh cut ash within the entire ripewood region? same area goes brown too, hispidus is an intense white rot, but oddly the wood often looks brittle and brown.

 

 

Edited November 15, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[chris cnc]

i get ya, similar to freshly cut alder oxidizing orange?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

absolutley, so never be lulled into assumptions, it takes a close look sometimes to evaluate such things.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have been tripped for some time by the combined rot of Phelinus tuberculosus and laetiporus sulphureus, the perrenial fruit bodies of the former, and the imature and not yet fruiting pressence of brown rot in Prunus pissardii's.

 

Its never as simple as it at first appears.

[chris cnc]

I get ya. My original assumption was that the combination of both white and brown rot effects was due to the simultaneous lignin and cellulose degradation caused by Inonotus hispidus.

 

Phew that was a mouthfull