Large Beech Failure

[born2trot]

Todays job , nothing holding this tree up at all , quite concerning . Would appreciate if anyone could shed some light on the white ( almost spray paint like ) blemishes .

 

 

 

 

 

Guss109 cutting , saw 395xp .

[RobArb]

possibly some sort of Lichen

[sloth]

Just a lichen I'd imagine, not certain though.

[born2trot]

  RobArb said:

possibly some sort of Lichen

 

Is that how lichen starts out Rob ?

 

What caused the failure ?

[RobArb]

Could be allsorts from ganodermas to meripilus, couldn't diagnose from those photos alone:biggrin:

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

[Ben Ballard]

I would go with merrip for the cause Nice amount of lichens, not sure about the spray mark may be it had been marked up by someone to be felled

[born2trot]

  Ben Ballard said:

I would go with merrip for the cause Nice amount of lichens, not sure about the spray mark may be it had been marked up by someone to be felled

 

Ben , that whats i suggested to the client, ( jokingly ) but it was in a private garden and definitely hadn't been marked up . Couldnt find any fruiting bodies at all . There were porcelain fungi on the upper branches . Thanks for your opinion .

[JimM]

That white marking on the trunk is the same as the pics I posted on the fungi thread of a beech with Pleurotus just the other day. I believe the white stuff is caused by an insect.

Looking forward to more informed comments on it.

[born2trot]

  JimM said:

That white marking on the trunk is the same as the pics I posted on the fungi thread of a beech with Pleurotus just the other day. I believe the white stuff is caused by an insect.

Looking forward to more informed comments on it.

 

Thanks Jim thats interesting , will try and follow that up

[sloth]

The smaller diameter of completely decayed roots, absence of central roots (as far as i can see) and stem discolouration points to merip. As Rob says though, could be anything!

The insect is Cryptococcus fagisuga. I still reckon that's lichen though...