Chalara fraxinea - Generic thread

[10 Bears]

Not good news. Here an ITV Borders report identifies that C. fraxinea has made it in to ten sites in the Lake District:

 

Ashes to ashes: deadly tree disease reaches Cumbria - ITV News

 

Just for info, the Scottish chap in the video is my good friend Ted Wilson who is a genuinely, expert Silviculturist who runs Silviculture Research International (SILVICULTURE RESEARCH International | Inspiring advances in the science and practice of sustainable forestry). If anyone ever needs (commercial) assistance in tree related research/forest research/forest conservation/CCF etc., without doubt, he should be your go to guy.

[Quercus Robert]

Do people think this could be Ash Dieback? Photo taken today. Tree has dropped a major bough in past 6 months and I'm planning on removing deadwood over private road. Any advice much appreciated. Sam

 

Not to worry, Sam. This is just an ash tree doing its thing. Sometimes they burst into flames or spontaneously chop themselves into logs and pile themselves up neatly into bundles of firewood. Perfectly normal, nothing to worry about.

[FatherJack]

More doom and gloom being reported on the BBC:

 

Ash tree set for extinction in Europe - BBC News

[SteveA]

More doom and gloom being reported on the BBC:

 

Ash tree set for extinction in Europe - BBC News

 

Oh Lordy lord, that really is not very good.

I'm guessing just spreading a bit of bio-char at the base of Ash trees ain't gonna cure that one.

cheers, steve

[David Humphries]

Good old 'Betty'

 

Tree identified in East Anglia showing "strong tolerance" to Chalara fraxinea.......

 

Ash dieback 'resistant' tree named Betty found in Norfolk - BBC News

 

 

Defra report on the current position on the molecular understanding of the disease........

 

http://oadb.tsl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Nornex_Final_Report_April_2016.pdf

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

The Independent's article reads a little more promising still:

 

"Initial screening of several small UK populations has also indicated that the markers for tolerance may be more common in UK ash trees, compared with other parts of Europe."

 

I wonder why?

 

 

New hope in fight against ash dieback - a tree called Betty | Nature | Environment | The Independent

[David Humphries]

........I wonder why?

 

Journalistic licence

 

 

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

I asked for that:blushing:

 

Try again.

 

I wonder why there might be a larger population of trees with 'tolerant markers' in the UK than in Europe?

[David Humphries]

Different gene's, different climatic conditions, further away from continental conglomoration of p&d, make em hardier t'up north

 

Some of the above ?

 

 

 

 

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[Duncansimpson]

Can this be Ash die back? If it is we are in trouble. All these taken within half a mile of my house, others around seem fine. I'm hoping they are just late coming into leaf but I don't hold out much hope.