ID and advice?

[Rupe]

Can anyone confirm what this is please??

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

bacterial slime flux, prbably the cause of the cancer/ canker

[Fungus]

bacterial slime flux, probably the cause of the cancer/canker

 

Phytophthora bleeding canker, see : Phytophthora bleeding canker / RHS Gardening Advice for its effects on Tilia.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Phytophthora bleeding canker, see : Phytophthora bleeding canker / RHS Gardening Advice for its effects on Tilia.

 

phew, can wipe the sweat of my brow!

[Rupe]

Phytophthora was my assumption but I'm no expert on these things!!

[roseyweb]

I saw this on a lime and said Bacterial Wet wood, was I correct?

or have I made that name up,

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I saw this on a lime and said Bacterial Wet wood, was I correct?

or have I made that name up,

 

you havent made the name up. but not really what you would describe here, that is more something you get in poplars and isnt really a problem.

 

gerrit! help me out here, wet wood in poplars, GO!

[Rupe]

I've been asked to fell this Lime anyway, but presence of Phytophthora would suggest that this is the best option?

 

Aside from that I think its lean has increased since I last saw it, and hazards below would advocate swifty removal me thinks.

[Fungus]

you havent made the name up. but not really what you would describe here, that is more something you get in poplars and isnt really a problem ... wet wood in poplars

 

Rosey & Tony,

Wet wood in poplars is caused by bacteria, which enzymatically degrade the heartwood of the tree and is associated with a darkening decolorisation of the heartwood, which only becomes visible after the tree has been felled. It is not detrimental to poplars, because only the (dead) heartwood is affected, and can even be benificial to the tree, as it prevents the wood from infection with mycelia of saprotrophic macrofungi causing (white) rot and destabilizing the tree.