beech tree failure check this OUT!! Fungi as well!

[not for sale sorry]

Is this along te A267 near wadhurst and Frant on the right if headed towards Eastborne where they were resurfacing? I saw one just like it whilst for the convoy vehicle there, had one big failed limb and brash stacked next ot it just like that.

 

o yer and what was you doing in my neck of the woods huh lol yer mate your spot on

Edited May 15, 2011 by not for sale sorry
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[RobArb]

that would of been awesome to see:thumbup1:i even guessed the fungi with my wife looking over my shoulder as witness, she was very impressed

 

 

apart from the impressed bit:thumbdown:

[janey]

That's a craicing set of pics. That was a heck of a lot of weight on top of decayed pollard poits.

[Fungus]

Was driving along the other day and saw this i had to get some pics!! it had a limb fall of the tree and go across the road in winter then this happend the other day! What is the fungi please?

 

Without a doubt Laetiporus sulphureus. Did you also notice, that in the last two photo's there is evidence visible of the beech developing secondary roots from the intact cambium into the cavity to collect moisture and nutrients from the residue of brown rotted wood at the bottom ?

[RobArb]

found lots of developing secondry roots in a split labernum the other day, the bottom 3ft was just nearly pure brown rot, and in the inclusion and down the roots where there, got some pics of that somewhere too:lol:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

`"cracking " images, a rare sight the brown rotted beech, only seen it in ancient woodland sites, i think of chicken on beech as an indicator of old growth forest.

[Beardie]

Apparently, beech do collapse like that sometimes. Alan Mitchell (1996) says that they will go from apparently healthy to rotting heap over the course of a weekend. Beech only live about 250 years, so it looks as though yours had a good innings.

[Graham]

`"cracking " images, a rare sight the brown rotted beech, only seen it in ancient woodland sites, i think of chicken on beech as an indicator of old growth forest.

 

As chicken on beech is only found in ancient woodland would that indicate some sort of symbiotic relationship with another fungus?

 

Brilliant pics.

[Fungus]

a rare sight the brown rotted beech, i think of chicken on beech

 

The last ten years, in The Netherlands, where until now Laetiporus sulphureus never has been found on Fagus, the brown rot causing Fomitopsis pinicola is responsible for decay of the wood of living old beeches.