Treefailure- Meripilus

[Xerxses]

I have been trawling the search result and can't come to a conclusion...

 

Does a failure always precede by fruiting Meripilus?

Is it possible for a tree to fall over with no signs of Meripilus before the failure?

[Fungus]

1. Does a failure always precede by fruiting Meripilus?

2. Is it possible for a tree to fall over with no signs of Meripilus before the failure?

 

Tobias,

1. No.

2. Yes.

[Xerxses]

The end.

 

No signs at all? No previous fb:s, absolutely nothing?

[Fungus]

No signs at all? No previous fb:s, absolutely nothing?

 

No, with beeches sometimes die back of the central crown and development of adventitious roots surrounding the trunk's base with Laccaria amethystina fruiting from them and panic fruiting (see photo) of Meripilus after the tree fell.

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[Xerxses]

No, with beeches sometimes die back of the central crown and development of adventitious roots surrounding the trunk's base with Laccaria amethystina fruiting from them and panic fruiting (see photo) of Meripilus after the tree fell.

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Thanks! Getting prepered for a seminar...

[sloth]

Beech often show distinctive root flare with merip, dont they? Even before the first fbs show up...

[Fungus]

Beech often show distinctive root flare with merip, dont they? Even before the first fbs show up...

 

Sloth,

IME, they sometimes - not often - do, and the root flare can also be caused by other root degrading parasites such as Pholiota squarrosa, Gymnopilus junonius, Collybia fusipes, Abortiporus biennis, Grifola frondosa or Polyporus umbellatus.

[sloth]

Sloth,

IME, they sometimes - not often - do, and the root flare can also be caused by other root degrading parasites such as Pholiota squarrosa, Gymnopilus junonius, Collybia fusipes, Abortiporus biennis, Grifola frondosa or Polyporus umbellatus.

 

Thanks for the info

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Sloth,

IME, they sometimes - not often - do, and the root flare can also be caused by other root degrading parasites such as Pholiota squarrosa, Gymnopilus junonius, Collybia fusipes, Abortiporus biennis, Grifola frondosa or Polyporus umbellatus.

 

and in particular this phenomina is extreme with Perenniporia fraxinea, as in this Horse chestnut.

 

[treeseer]

Thanks for the info

 

Maybe some of my confusion is due to regional dialect, but...

 

Isn't the root flare a natural structural formation of a maturing tree?

 

Given individual tree variation, how do we know if the flare is abnormal?

 

If the root flare looks abnormal to us, are there other possible causes for this, besides root degrading parasites?

 

Thank you for any replies.