Big Tree Failure

[Fungus]

I think the bracket fungus is unrelated to the brown rot.

 

Then I at least would have to know the colour of the spores to try to identify the bracket species.

[browncow]

Then I at least would have to know the colour of the spores to try to identify the bracket species.

 

Ha, I just edited my post as I realised I was not too sure of that. You beat me to it. I don't have a closer pic of the bracket but if the tree is still there I will have another look tomorrow and maybe you can help with the ID.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Were the Howeia (?) palm and (Asplenium ?) tongue ferns rooting in the brown rotted stem of the tree ? If so, they were a preceding warning of the extensive decay and possible fall of the tree.

And the bracket fungus causing brown rot must be an indigenous South Asian species, because it doesn't look like any brown rot causing European species I know.

 

yeah i thought that of the fungi too.

 

cool failure and shots thanks for sharing:thumbup1:

[atree]

Not too bad bro, just crank the air-con in the office up:001_tt2: When doing training here or climbing for inspections its pretty hot and there is a lot of critters that like to bite and sting in them thar trees. Were you over here for a bit bro working for one of the contractors?

 

haha lucky for some,Nah i was just passing through for a couple of days.

[browncow]

Here is a closer pic of the fungal bracket on the standing half of the failed tree. It is long dead and very decayed (the bracket that is). I had a look at the neighbouring trees of the same species and size and observed similar brown rot and some nice fruiting bodies.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

there are at least three different fungi here first one spore print

 

white= phelinus probably

Second yellow to ochre print I have no clues!

last is a bog standard gano sp with a typical coca spore print

[Fungus]

there are at least three different fungi Second yellow to ochre print ... last is a bog standard gano sp with a typical coca spore print

 

IMO there are two species of bracket fungi :

- Photo 1 shows a very old perennial bracket of the same Ganoderma species, which are all white rotters with selective delignification, present in photo 4 and 5

- Photo 2 and 3 show a probably indigenous species for the region, which should account for the brown rot at the base.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

IMO there are two species of bracket fungi :

- Photo 1 shows a very old perennial bracket of the same Ganoderma species, which are all white rotters with selective delignification, present in photo 4 and 5

- Photo 2 and 3 show a probably indigenous species for the region, which should account for the brown rot at the base.

 

Gerrit, that first one defo has a white spore

[Fungus]

that first one defo has a white spore

 

Tony,

White spores from what, from a very old inactive and partially decayed bracket, of which the remaining tubes have stopped producing spores a long time ago, because the mycelium died ?

I think you mistake light spots and a white mould on the bracket and the bark for spores, which after death of the mycelium and its reproductive organ can no longer be produced, unless you believe in life after death for Ganoderma .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

White spores from what, from a very old inactive and partially decayed bracket, of which the remaining tubes have stopped producing spores a long time ago, because the mycelium died ?

I think you mistake light spots and a white mould on the bracket and the bark for spores, which after death of the mycelium and its reproductive organ can no longer be produced, unless you believe in life after death for Ganoderma .

 

Too much white and too far spread for the mould IMO, a lack of rain and or situation of the bracket under hung or within dry butress zones could see a spore print outlast the bracket.

 

it could be dust stain from entomological fras too:001_tt2: