Old Liriodendron tulipifera

[Fungus]

With great pleasure, I share my acquaintance with this Dutch over 150 years old Liriodendron tulipifera with its impressive union-shaped trunk base, it probably developed, because it was planted at the edge of a pond with permanent high waterlevels.

The base of the tree meanwhile has incorporated the trunk of a much younger beech. It's a major feature of an English landscape park behind the Groeneveld castle in Baarn.

In the front park of the estate, there also is a small "forest" of somewhat younger Liriodendrons.

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[janey]

Thanks for posting that Gerrit, it's a cracker

 

What's causing the unusual basal growth?

[sloth]

Why might waterlogging cause such bottle butt? Do you know/think there is decay present, or is it a type of canker? Looks like the main roots extend 'through it' and out the other side; does that make sense? Thank you....

Edited August 17, 2011 by sloth

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Going on body language alone i would say that basal decay (due to waterlogging) lead to shell buckling, lead to burring and adaption/compenation.

 

it has all the character of and aged acer campestre or platanus thats lived with pholiota squarrosus for many years, there is a platanus in a similar situation within hatfield forest.

 

Although pond side and waterlogged might be the territory of lentinus tigrinus, the tiger sawgill

[Fungus]

Going on body language alone i would say that basal decay (due to waterlogging) lead to shell buckling, lead to burring and adaption/compensation.

it has all the character of and aged acer campestre or platanus thats lived with Pholiota squarrosa for many years, there is a platanus in a similar situation within hatfield forest.

Although pond side and waterlogged might be the territory of Lentinus tigrinus, the tiger sawgill

 

Tony,

I've monitored this tree, which is one of the six remaining Dutch Liriodendron's of this age after a seventh solitary one was struck by lightning and split in half some years ago, since 1996, and there has never been any fruiting of any parasitic (P. squarrosa), nor saprotrophic (L. tigrinus) macrofungus. Besides, in The Netherlands, P. squarrosa has never been documented of Acer (yet) and L. tigrinus is restriced to dead wood (stumps, horizontal trunks with soil contact) of Salix, Fraxinus and Fagus with a special liking for (pollard) willows growing in tide woodlands.

From the old Liriodendron at an estate alongside the river Donk in Breda, I have documented a nasty infection with (rhizomorphs of) Armillaria mellea, which it probably will not survive on the long run.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

I've monitored this tree, which is one of the six remaining Dutch Liriodendron's of this age after a seventh solitary one was struck by lightning and split in half some years ago, since 1996, and there has never been any fruiting of any parasitic (P. squarrosa), nor saprotrophic (L. tigrinus) macrofungus. Besides, in The Netherlands, P. squarrosa has never been documented of Acer (yet) and L. tigrinus is restriced to dead wood (stumps, horizontal trunks with soil contact) of Salix, Fraxinus and Fagus with a special liking for (pollard) willows growing in tide woodlands.

From the old Liriodendron at an estate alongside the river Donk in Breda, I have documented a nasty infection with (rhizomorphs of) Armillaria mellea, which it probably will not survive on the long run.

 

You can add Oak to the list for tigrinus:thumbup1: never seen P squarrosa on acer either