Look what's hiding?

[David Humphries]

Just because It's not in your view, do not surmise It's not there

 

Quercus cerris; known cavity which had fruiting bodies externally for the past 5 years, but nothing this year.

 

On further investigation, saw this on the roof of the cavity

 

Believe the picture of the fruiting body 1m up inside the cavity to be Ganoderma resinaceum, as the external brackets were last year (final picture)

[christreeroot]

A good lesson to be learnt there by all

[Amelanchier]

Great shots Monkey and a wise lesson.

 

I found a little baby G. resinacium on a Quercus ilex in Overstrand recently.

[David Humphries]

Great shots Monkey and a wise lesson.

 

I found a little baby G. resinacium on a Quercus ilex in Overstrand recently.

 

Ahhh.........What a little cutie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Giles Hill]

Were there any external visual signs suggesting the presence of the fungi Monkeyd?

 

i.e. Apart from the big hole.

[David Humphries]

Were there any external visual signs suggesting the presence of the fungi Monkeyd?

 

i.e. Apart from the big hole.

 

 

The bulging of the butresses are a fair indication of cavity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Giles Hill]

Thanks for the reply - I was wondering more about the canopy, but having just done a bit of googling I get the impression that the vascular systems of oak cope quite well with the infection and so decay / visual evidenc is usually limited to the base of the tree?

 

http://www.enspec.com/articles/ENSPEC%20Research%20Paper%20-%20Ganoderma%20on%20Trees.pdf

[David Humphries]

Managed to squeeze me camera up into this tight little spot, then took a slice.

 

Would appear to be Rigidoporous ulmarius playing hard to get inside this Hc

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/6205-rigidoporus-ulmarius.html

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Great shots Monkey and a wise lesson.

 

I found a little baby G. resinacium on a Quercus ilex in Overstrand recently.

 

Stemmed indicates lucidum, good find

[combined tree services]

Just because It's not in your view, do not surmise It's not there

 

Quercus cerris; known cavity which had fruiting bodies externally for the past 5 years, but nothing this year.

 

On further investigation, saw this on the roof of the cavity

 

Believe the picture of the fruiting body 1m up inside the cavity to be Ganoderma resinaceum, as the external brackets were last year (final picture)

 

we recently have had something similar on a turkey oak - tree had been inspected and no FFB were found but there had been a cavity that was not filled up witth concreat so back in the storms i recieved a phone call saying that siad oak tree had failed at the base of the crown (exactly where the concreat was , so we went along and cleared the tree from the road and 3 gardens . When we had a look at the remaining stem of the tree it became clear that it was either Rigidoporus or similarbut was hard to identify because the FFb had not been exposed to enough light therefore the FFB was colourless and did not really show any common charictaristics .