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K. deusta was my first thought too, but everyone who has looked at the tree in real life (which doesn't include me so far...) has so far not found any fruiting bodies like K.deusta. Is it possible that the decay was aggressive enough to topple the tree without even fruiting?

 

I will try and get a pic of the fruiting body sliced in half tomorrow.

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I'm with Tony in putting K. deusta in the frame.

 

Kretz didnt cause the failure persay, it had a combatant effect, which i will describe in a mo.

 

K. deusta was my first thought too, but everyone who has looked at the tree in real life (which doesn't include me so far...) has so far not found any fruiting bodies like K.deusta. Is it possible that the decay was aggressive enough to topple the tree without even fruiting?

 

I will try and get a pic of the fruiting body sliced in half tomorrow.

 

No doubt the white rot has done for the roots and reduced the shear root ball dimensions hence the failure even in still condtions, what i believe has occurred is that being twin colonised and the kretz being a good combatant (fights its territory well) it has forced the white rotter which would normaly be decaying the old central root/butt regions to consume wood it maybe would not have colonised till very late stages in usual circumstances, its had to to survive.

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No scientific evidence required to prove that white rot not soft rot caused the failure.

 

your only seeing a photograph of a cross section of the stem at one particular point in the tree and from this your assuming Kretzsch is definitely present.

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your only seeing a photograph of a cross section of the stem at one particular point in the tree and from this your assuming Kretzsch is definitely present.

 

when did i say definitely? we are all speculating here, would you offer up YOUR speculative assesment?

 

time will tell with the lab results, wont it:001_smile:

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