Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction

[treeseer]

Ever the optimist

Yes, looking through gloomy glasses there, at a crystal ball that always seems chock full of black shoestrings.

 

Epic work with that device there. Even lacking that tool and expertise, there are other assessment and treatment methods that, if used in a sober fashion, can lead to other outcomes than felling.

[Fungus]

The trees in these shots have varying decay associations : Beech/G pfeifferi

 

David,

Where does the black oozing in the first picture come from : K. deusta or Armillaria cf. mellea or Phytophthora ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ever the optimist

 

 

Its going to be a very interesting case study over time.

 

particularly due the rare association of the species.

 

 

 

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i didnt say anything that isnt true, time i did not give! and one thing is certain, its a rare birch that goes on to live the live that a staverton birch does! and even they had mellea bleeds, in case you did not notice!

 

and Guy, bootlaces and bleeds and the mention of mellea is only frequent because it is the most frequent factor, being a weakness parasite any issues quickly lead to Armillarias, which are ubiquitous in the soils, moving in.

 

[treeseer]

i didnt say anything that isnt true,...

 

"just the obvious one that *will* be, an old birch on a lean in a wood with a white rot fungi at the core, cant last forever but not suggesting the lucidum will be the ultimate cause but that a secondary "weakness" parasite *will* be."

 

Tony, Sorry to be a wet blanket, but the verb "will" means you made absolute predictions. If these predicted events do not happen as you said they *will*, what you said was indeed not true at all.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

"just the obvious one that *will* be, an old birch on a lean in a wood with a white rot fungi at the core, cant last forever but not suggesting the lucidum will be the ultimate cause but that a secondary "weakness" parasite *will* be."

 

Tony, Sorry to be a wet blanket, but the verb "will" means you made absolute predictions. If these predicted events do not happen as you said they *will*, what you said was indeed not true at all.

 

 

oh but THEY WILL!

[treeseer]

oh but THEY WILL!

 

Yes, looking through gloomy glasses there, at a crystal ball that always seems chock full of black shoestrings.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yes, looking through gloomy glasses there, at a crystal ball that always seems chock full of black shoestrings.

 

just winding it up:biggrin:

[Riggerbear]

David,

Theres not many threads on arbtalk that i read from start to last post but i have this one, excellent work and very interesting.

Wish i worked for more clients that would allow me to manage trees in such condition instead of just wanting a complete removal most of the time.

[Paul Cleaver]

Not at that stage Gerrit, this was just a preliminary excavation.

 

 

 

 

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meripilus on beech is very aggressive - I would be suprised if there isnt significant root decay -

 

hope there are no other beech near by - infection can be passed on

 

 

 

love the post - thanks

[Paul Cleaver]

The remaining branch was severly compromised by the attendance of both the brown rotting Laetiporus & Fistulina (first shot)

 

Today I noted the white rotting Ganoderma lucidum fruiting either side of the last remaining live butress root, with also Xylaria polymorpha & Bjerkandera adusta at the base of the tree in the same area.

 

 

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commendable your efforts to preseve but I think its time to fell - dam road