Tree of heaven pruning reaction.

[Danavan]

Very true indeed, I have seen them on the continent and they hit them back hard. They always seem to come back!

 

Are they native to the Americas?

 

Hit hard & always come back

[Fungus]

I have seen them on the continent and they hit them back hard. They always seem to come back!

 

Ailanthus altissima on the continent nowadays is considered to be an invasive exotic species, which in the Swiss Alps (Graubünden) f.i. is removed by hand, because it spreads and revives so easily and quickly, that is overgrows and eliminates indigenous species of trees and plants. When you have one or a few fruiting trees of heaven in a city park, after five years you have hundreds of seedlings, which even surface from cracks in the pavement or side walk.

[Danavan]

A tree of hell then by all accounts as described by paul in a previous quote:001_smile:

 

A tree I saw the other day had a Ganoderma spp bracket present & some savage cavity's on the stems further up the tree. Good reactive growth on wound wood that I could see.

 

Dose anyone know the sort of life span these triffed trees can get up to?