V.T.A symptoms "the chatty trees"

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thats the knarliest hazard beam ive seen for ages!

[RobArb]

it was near a local swimming pool with a footpath underneath and a telephone cable within range of the fail, therefore needless to say that limb came off!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

it was near a local swimming pool with a footpath underneath and a telephone cable within range of the fail, therefore needless to say that limb came off!

 

hazard beams can stabalise, good reduction would have could have resolved it for at least a decade, but off is also justifiable.

[RobArb]

not in salford:lol:

[RobArb]

so whats happening here then, excuse me if its a stupid question but i'm going to start from scratch from the fungi side of things by asking really simple stupid questions:blush:

 

so question 1 (first set of pics)

 

this pseudoplatanus has obviously got some kind of helical growth going on but never seen the bark lift like this before?

 

so.... whats going on?

[RobArb]

question 2 to follow when i've sorted the pics:biggrin:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

the tree is very vigorous, the helical growth is revealed in the force flows and active pumping the ribs are just active fast expanding channels and causing rapid sloughing of bark.

[PhilBeech]

What a great thread, will get some pics up myself in due course

[RobArb]

ok on to question 2

 

this A. hippo' had a full healthy crown but appears (possibly) to have been hit by lightning. There is a mucky brown bleed on the bottom of the scar. On the opposite side to the scar there was a flat area of bark and a "black bleed" on a root buttress with a burr above the bleed.

 

So whats going/gone on?

[Fungus]

this A. hippo' had a full healthy crown but appears (possibly) to have been hit by lightning. There is a mucky brown bleed on the bottom of the scar. On the opposite side to the scar there was a flat area of bark and a "black bleed" on a root buttress with a burr above the bleed. So whats going/gone on?

 

Rob,

See : Aesculus bleeding canker.