Tree assessment/forest pathology

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Fistulina?

 

 

there are no cankers.

[PhilBeech]

Laetiporus? Lol

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Laetiporus? Lol

 

I think so, due to the sinking down/buckling. but what of the chain of trees, the missing bark renewed?

[PhilBeech]

It also appears to be progressing left to right from the dead oak through to your tree...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It also appears to be progressing left to right from the dead oak through to your tree...

 

correct, there is a set of conditions that have made it a viable "vien" for a certain well know fungi which is following the path of least resistance.

 

The stressed dying trees are in the freed from woodland zone, all now lacking forest floor debris.

 

KEYS

[RobArb]

is something travelling in the water downhill?

[Fungus]

Phil Beech : Laetiporus ?

I think so, due to the sinking down/buckling.

 

I agree because of the horizontal cracks in the life belts and bucklings indicating there is a brown rotter "at work" (see photo).

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Phil Beech : Laetiporus ?

 

I agree because of the horizontal cracks in the life belts and bucklings indicating there is a brown rotter "at work" (see photo).

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Thanks gerrit, i was banking on you with that!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

is something travelling in the water downhill?

 

No, come on rob, theres no debris on the floor, no complex saprotrophic community, poor soil fauna and a line of trees in it to give a travelling armillaria fresh fodder.

 

THIS is the effects of armilaria Sp, it is following a line of stressed trees that have had their habitat altered, and also had considerably moss encroachment.

 

the new bark should have been a give away as was the line of death decay and dysfunction.

[RobArb]

still lacking in the fungal features dept, need to do more reading and play catch up:thumbup: