Massaria

[Fungus]

Just think of all that microtrauma caused by climbers stomping around with spore laden boots... You heard it here first.

 

Sure : © Tony Sorensen (2011) .

[sean]

Ha ha, probably. Just struck me as an interesting correlation - the planes in the London parks are probably some of the most climbed trees in the UK. Just think of all that microtrauma caused by climbers stomping around with spore laden boots... You heard it here first.

 

Ive climbed alot of planes in Londons parks.......if you're any good you glide...

[Amelanchier]

Ive climbed alot of planes in Londons parks.......if you're any good you glide...

 

S'all prolly your fault then. Gliding them spores about like.

[sean]

S'all prolly your fault then. Gliding them spores about like.

 

all my doing yea......going to be running a mail order spore service soon......agin...like the OPM net start up kits i'm selling they can be dispatched to anywhere in the uk......guaranteed arb work...

[D Mc]

I was at the AA conference and attended the very intresting talk by Mike Turner....

One very interesting fact was that he commented that he found it less limbs above hard surfaces such as roads, is this a thing others have found ?

 

No study, Gerrit. I thought the above quoited comment unusual enough to be worth some dialog to determine if others have noted something similar, and if so, why?

 

Dave

[Fungus]

the above quoted comment unusual enough to be worth some dialog to determine if others have noted something similar

 

Dave,

Me too, so I already challenged this IMO unlikely hypothesis.

Edited October 13, 2011 by Fungus

[Fungus]

research on the effects of air pollution on urban and roadside trees has shown, that these trees function as dust filters "storing" particulates, pollen and spores on their foliage until the rain washes it down and transports it to the sewer system and that's why urban trees are more than just the lungs (oxygen) of our cities.

 

Trees "eat" pollution better than expected.

[sean freeman]

Excellent link thankyou Gerrit

[David Humphries]

We came across this dysfunctional branch the other day in a park in north west London.

 

First time I've noted this particular form of decay on any of our Plane population.

 

Believe it to be indicative of Massaria?

 

 

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[Fungus]

this particular form of decay on any of our Plane population. Believe it to be indicative of Massaria ?

 

Could well be, but were there no necrotric cambium lesions present on the sides of the branch where the infection seems to have invaded it ?

Edited April 14, 2012 by Fungus