Thoughts please on a Beech problem

[detritus21]

I'll be honest its kind of along the lines I was thinking. I should have took a better picture of the whole trunk. The fruiting body lies at the base of a massive inclusion with a significant amount of weight acting on it in a rotational force. Its one of those trees where your head is telling you the right thing but your heart is trying to overrule.

 

Rob if you go have a look at the chestnut its one of the worst I've seen in terms of decay relating to canker and try and spot the Ganoderma bracket on the beech with the previous massive limb removal/failure.

[RobArb]

I'll be honest its kind of along the lines I was thinking. I should have took a better picture of the whole trunk. The fruiting body lies at the base of a massive inclusion with a significant amount of weight acting on it in a rotational force. Its one of those trees where your head is telling you the right thing but your heart is trying to overrule.

 

Rob if you go have a look at the chestnut its one of the worst I've seen in terms of decay relating to canker and try and spot the Ganoderma bracket on the beech with the previous massive limb removal/failure.

 

will do:thumbup:

[Fungus]

... a tree with considerable amenity, and probably conservation value, showing what appears to be possibly early parasitic infection by a fungi capable of causing windthrow ...

 

... or the first time fruiting after it has "dived under" for some years completely decaying the base of the tree at and/or below ground level before surfacing again.

[detritus21]

There was also a second fruiting body on the same tree of the same fungus further round the tree

[RobArb]

There's some pretty sick trees there altogether

 

Had a look on my way back from southport this morning, that is a big tree with the merip and IMO need to come down, there is also 3 other Fagus with Gano sp., the Aesculus you mentioned with HCBC but is also riddled with the rhizomorphs of Armillaria which needs to be felled IMO, and did you spot the Quercus cerris with bark necrosis on some sort of rot on its stem, black oozing stuff too, die back in the crown, leaning over the road... I'd fell that too

 

I'll post pics up in a bit if you want

 

And if you get the job and need a hand, well i'm here to help:biggrin:

[detritus21]

The Quercus cerris was spotted with the bark necrosis along with the dead wood in the crown. The Chestnut is coming down. I'd spotted the rhizomorphs under the bark it is one very unwell tree. I spotted one of the Beech with the ganoderma but missed the others. We'd only had a brief look round the main concerns were the dead wood in the Turkey Oak and the Chestnut. I'm going back for a proper more in depth look to devise a full action plan for them. There are a lot of trees with a lot of liability linked to them. Cheers for the input as well it could be a job where extra hands are needed.

[RobArb]

Your right about the liabilty, most of them are leaners towards that road!

 

And no probs about the input, i like the practice of going looking at trees and doing mini surveys and just getting used to reading body language an all that, i hope you get the job as it would be an interesting one, with plenty rigging:biggrin:

 

 

Here's some piccies for you:thumbup:

 

Pics 1-6; Tree 1 - Beech with Meripilus

Pics 7-10; Tree 2 - Beech with Gano. Gano was very hard, slightly cracked, hollow sound when knocked on

Pics 11-13; Tree 3 - HC with Armillaria rhizomorphs

Pic 14; Tree 4 - Beech with developing Gano

Pics 15-19; Tree 5 - Turkey Oak with Armillaria?

Pics 20-22; Tree 6 - Beech with 2 separate Gano's developing

[detritus21]

Well spotted on the other two ganos. Looks like I'll have to Id all the Ganos and work out what is the best plan. I'd imagine long term the trees won't have a great prognosis. Its a difficult situation as you are talking major trees being lost over a period of time. The priority is the HC I don't fancy its chances of staying upright for too long a period.

[Fungus]

Pics 7-10; Tree 2 - Beech with Gano. Gano was very hard, slightly cracked, hollow sound when knocked on

Pics 15-19; Tree 5 - Turkey Oak with Armillaria?

 

Rob,

Pics 7-10 : not Ganoderma's, but probably a species with white spores, such as Rigidoporus ulmarius or Perenniporia fraxinus.

Pics 15-19 : .

[David Humphries]

Is the guy in the first shot calling the rozzers about some weirdo in the cemetry taking pictures ?

 

 

 

 

good piece of documentation Rob

 

 

 

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