Relative rates of wood deacay in Tilia sp.

[alliaria]

Hi,

Does anyone have any info on differing rates of decay on Tilia sp.

I have been told that T. vulgaris has far less ability to compartmentalise wood decay fungi than other Tilia sp. I have never come across this before.

There also seems a lack of pathogenetic fungi that invade the trunk and periphera of Tilia sp.

[Fungus]

Hi,

Does anyone have any info on differing rates of decay on Tilia sp.

I have been told that T. vulgaris has far less ability to compartmentalise wood decay fungi than other Tilia sp. I have never come across this before.

There also seems a lack of pathogenetic fungi that invade the trunk and periphera of Tilia sp.

 

The top three of pathogen macrofungi most invasive and detrimental to the trunk's base and major roots of Tilia spp. are Kretzschmaria deusta (soft rot), Meripilus giganteus (white and soft rot) and Ganoderma australe or G. lipsiense (white rot with selective delignification).

[alliaria]

The top three of pathogen macrofungi most invasive and detrimental to the trunk's base and major roots of Tilia spp. are Kretzschmaria deusta (soft rot), Meripilus giganteus (white and soft rot) and Ganoderma australe or G. lipsiense (white rot with selective delignification).

Hi Gerritt,

Yeah those three are fairly common on Lime here, I was wondering if there are any fungi associated with the upper canopy and branching framework of Tilia sp. and how the different sp. respond.

[David Humphries]

The top three of pathogen macrofungi most invasive and detrimental to the trunk's base and major roots of Tilia spp. are Kretzschmaria deusta (soft rot), Meripilus giganteus (white and soft rot) and Ganoderma australe or G. lipsiense (white rot with selective delignification).

 

Hi Gerritt,

Yeah those three are fairly common on Lime here, I was wondering if there are any fungi associated with the upper canopy and branching framework of Tilia sp. and how the different sp. respond.

 

 

 

Interesting, I've never really noted meripilus on Lime before.

 

 

Polyporus squamosus is often found on trunks & in canopy wood of Tilia

 

 

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[alliaria]

Interesting, I've never really noted meripilus on Lime before.

 

 

Polyporus squamosus is often found on trunks & in canopy wood of Tilia

 

 

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Hi,

I missed the meripilus bit sorry too early. no I,ve not seen meripilus on lime.

[Fungus]

Polyporus squamosus is often found on trunks & in canopy wood of Tilia

 

So is Pleurotus ostreatus, but the white rotters of branches still present in the crown or fallen on the ground are restricted to common saprotrophic generalists such as Vuilleminia comedens and/or Stereum or Tremella species and to one tree species specific Peniophora species, P. rufomarginata.

On the dead epicormic growth at the trunk's base, one can find Mycena species and I twice found Entoloma conferendum var. pusillum (= E. xylophilum) fruiting from these dead twigs.