Ganoderma oak

[treesnatcher]

This tree has a tpo. I am looking for a consultants report it's located ng32.

Everyone seems very busy at moment locally please pm if you can assist. It is a mature oak with the weight leaning towards the building.

Also the previous owner raised the soil level and built the wall approximate 2 ft 25 years ago so the bracket is at the new level and it has started to consume the wall

shows the lean

End pic shows size

Can the ganoderma be I'd from these pics?

[Tony.Price]

I could be available this week to look at. 07971 979372

[Fungus]

It is a mature oak with the weight leaning towards the building. Also the previous owner raised the soil level and built the wall approximate 2 ft 25 years ago so the bracket is at the new level and it has started to consume the wall Can the ganoderma be I'd from these pics?

 

Does it produce rusty brown spores ? If so, it probably is G. australe, but to be 100 % sure, identification includes looking at the size of the spores (microscope).

[treesnatcher]

yes lots of rusty spores all around bracket.

do the layered ridges indicate the annual growth

[Fungus]

yes lots of rusty spores all around bracket.

do the layered ridges indicate the annual growth

 

Just about, they actually represent multi seasonal growth, as the mycelium sometimes stops building new layers underneath the perennial brackets for a while if the circumstances temporarely inhibit growth and resumes fruiting within the same year once the conditions have improved enough.

[treeseer]

Excellent pictures, especially the last, which shows that the tree has self-corrected the lean. If strength loss is significant, hard reduction is an option, as Tony might be specifying. The options here def. go beyond/between 'fell or retain".

 

Yellow line looks like one option to aim for an 'inner crown" of sorts. less off may be more defendable. Really should be off the house anyway; do they need a permit to prevent building damage?

Edited September 10, 2011 by treeseer

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Excellent pictures, especially the last, which shows that the tree has self-corrected the lean. If strength loss is significant, hard reduction is an option, as Tony might be specifying. The options here def. go beyond/between 'fell or retain".

 

Yellow line looks like one option to aim for an 'inner crown" of sorts. less off may be more defendable. Really should be off the house anyway; do they need a permit to prevent building damage?

 

take that much photsynthetic off a tree with australe and the australe wins.

[Fungus]

Trees connect the earth, and mankind, to the heavens.

 

Guy,

No they don't, its the Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria), the Holy Mushroom, the Cosmic Egg (photo 1), the Holy Grail, The Golden Fleece (photo 2), the Avalon, the Burning Bush, the Chalice, manna or the bread or host, in the old days mainly associated with spruce and birch, that does this .

Edited September 10, 2011 by Fungus

[treeseer]

take that much photsynthetic off a tree with australe and the australe wins.

Well we don't want that now do we! Hence "less off may be more defendable." Unless strength loss is significant, reduction could be limited to <5 cm cuts, <5% of crown.

 

"Guy,

No they don't, its the Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria), the Holy Mushroom, the Cosmic Egg (photo 1), the Holy Grail, The Golden Fleece (photo 2), the Avalon, the Burning Bush, the Chalice, manna or the bread or host, in the old days mainly associated with spruce and birch, that does this "

 

From the fungal perspective, this is true. Trees do have associates that beautifully assist their connection to the earth, and it's up to arborists to increase their function. Here our spheres overlap.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Well we don't want that now do we! Hence "less off may be more defendable." Unless strength loss is significant, reduction could be limited to <5 cm cuts, <5% of crown.

 

"Guy,

No they don't, its the Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria), the Holy Mushroom, the Cosmic Egg (photo 1), the Holy Grail, The Golden Fleece (photo 2), the Avalon, the Burning Bush, the Chalice, manna or the bread or host, in the old days mainly associated with spruce and birch, that does this "

 

From the fungal perspective, this is true. Trees do have associates that beautifully assist their connection to the earth, and it's up to arborists to increase their function. Here our spheres overlap.

 

Without the fungi, the system collapses, full stop.