reported some dodgy beeches

[Matthew Arnold]

Any pictures of the stump?

[ben lightfoot]

Im heading that way on thursday will try and check them out

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Im heading that way on thursday will try and check them out

 

[ben lightfoot]

Just to let you know that the tree has now been felled and will get a stump photo at the weekend

[ben lightfoot]

a good call i think

 

 

 

 

[ben lightfoot]

Also a note for hama, in the first pic you can see a side limb with staining any ideas what could be the cause of this?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Also a note for hama, in the first pic you can see a side limb with staining any ideas what could be the cause of this?

 

Increasingly the tree is blocking tyloses due to colonisation hence the dark spots, this tree was in a very bad way indeed.

 

Can anyone get back to this to see what fruits in the coming season?

 

the kretz had done the most damage but looking at the old reaction zones was meripilus also in atendence?

[ben lightfoot]

didn't see any meripilus was too busy in aww of decay, i would have thought she would have thrown if merip was there but may be wrong. i expect the stump will be left so might build up an annual id of fungi.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

didn't see any meripilus was too busy in aww of decay, i would have thought she would have thrown if merip was there but may be wrong. i expect the stump will be left so might build up an annual id of fungi.

 

trees with meripilus die standing as often as they throw.

 

do record what crops up, I am looking for panic ganodermas specificaly and meripilus.

[Tom D]

Funny things trees, That one was clearly knackered. I saw one 2 years ago, its massive 100' tall and no joke 9'dbh, huge longitudinal cavity, beech bark disease, gano, kretz, and lots of very soft timber inside. It has a massive top too, lots to catch the wind. I drove past yesterday and despite the recent storm its still there. Who knows how long the one in the op would have lasted..