I-dent on Beech please

[num83r13]

Identification would be appreciated, on a fairly large Beech which is weighted towards a busy main rd within 4m from trunk of tree.

 

Thanks.

[sloth]

Perhaps start here...

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-fungi-72.html

[Graham]

The black knobbly stuff is Kretzschmaria deusta. Nasty.

[RobRainford]

The black knobbly stuff is Kretzschmaria deusta. Nasty.

 

Ditto. Get it reported.

[daltontrees]

Sure looks like kretzschmaria deusta to me. Bear in mingd by the time the black stuff has appeared at the surface the fungus may already have hollowed the tree out form the inside. You see whole beech trees just snap at the base due to this stuff. If you've got a riddled leaner that close to the road you would need to have a very good reason not to fell it within a couple of weeks.

[thorn]

Good old fashioned ustulina sorry I cant spell kretzscmaria That is scary it looks pretty advanced the phrase "catastrophic tree failure " spring to mind , I would get it down as dead or dangerous pretty sharpish if in a roadside position . Ive had a beech fail in a woodland I inspect and you wouldnt have thought it could stand on such thin remaining walls .But it is was at the bottom of a slope protected by other trees I'll try and dig out the photos.

[Andy Collins]

Didn't the name revert to Ustulina sometime back? Now everyone calls it Kret.... Can't spell it it either . Fell fell fell before Mr Humphries pops along

[David Humphries]

Didn't the name revert to Ustulina sometime back? Now everyone calls it Kret.... Can't spell it it either . Fell fell fell before Mr Humphries pops along

 

Poppity pop pop.......fell, fell, fellity fell

 

 

 

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[Andy Collins]

Blimey, get out the saws quick, Mr Humphries says it's ok .

[David Humphries]

Blimey, get out the saws quick, Mr Humphries says it's ok .

 

Without dragging up and prolonging the agony of a previous recent thread, there is more than a subtle difference between these two beeches.

 

One (seemingly) is at the point of no return and one (in my humblest of opinions) wasn't.

 

And further more, what's with the plural on the saw(s),

surely one solitary great big one would suffice

 

Would be interesting to see the cross section of this tree if the OP gets to take it down.

 

 

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