Oak decay

[Dave177]

Hopefully I have attached the pictures right today.

Went to look at this in my aunts garden today and not quite sure how to proceed. Its a fair sized Oak, the Crown looks full and well shaped, its lost a major limb off one side previously and the resulting damage has caused dead tissue around the wound.

In the base of the stem are signs of decay in at least 2 locations and a third spreading up a crack to about 6ft in height. There is also a large bulge also around the 6ft mark.

There were some some fungal brackets at the base but they were removed to "kill" the fungus my my uncle

 

They want to keep the tree but at the same time dont want to risk damaging their property or the road.

Any ideas what I should tell them to do, I was thinking getting someone in to do a detailed assesment to check the extent of decay in the stem or doesnt it look too bad/is it not work the expense?

 

Cheers guys

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Clearly a huge amount of ignorance has resulted from trying to hold up nonesensical statements.

The original task was to quantify this "the most highly fluid active cambium channels" which none of you have done.

 

Instead you have made fools of yourselves and displayied your lack of arboricultural knowledge.

 

Cambium does not have "channels", Cambium is a layer, it is zonal, it generates the cells in a tree and is omni-present in living sapwood! No channels there.

 

No part of a tree has "channels", they have vessels (angiosperms) or Tracheids (gymnosperms) for fluid transport!

 

 

That basal fluting you are struggling to describe is a natural reaction of a tree that has been colonised by a fungus with a strategy of selective delignification, so no education here, just a statement of the bleeding obvious.

 

There is plenty more missinformation and claptrap in that functional iliterate cess pit of 16000+ posts if you care to read a few (if you are able of course)

 

In the future, if you are going to try and vouchsafe BS for your chum, at least come up with something more realistic.

 

 

wow, you really are a smashing chap, namaste. senior.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

For the record folks cambium becomes dis-continuous in such a scenario, and therefore the word "Chanel" applies very aptly.

[j r hartly]

So wheres the "swans neck" then?

 

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[Steve Bullman]

Can we have less of the jibes from both sides please

[Amelanchier]

Can we keep this on topic for the OP please. The analysis of the quality of information is valid but those who wish to congratulate others for the apparently laudable task of logging in to the forum can do so in a separate thread (or preferably by PM).

Edited January 20, 2013 by Amelanchier

[woodyguy]

"No part of a tree has "channels", they have vessels (angiosperms) or Tracheids (gymnosperms) for fluid transport!"

 

Oxford English dictionary

Channel - biology - a tubular passage for liquids

Vessel - Botany - any of the tubular structures in the vascular system of a plant, serving to conduct water and mineral nutrients from the root.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Can we keep this on topic for the OP please. The analysis of the quality of information is valid (and amusingly accurate) but those who wish to congratulate Tony for the apparently laudable task of returning to the forum (again) can do so in a separate thread (or preferably by PM).

 

Remember kids - sometimes the Emperor really is just a crazy naked guy.

 

Trust you to butt in, dont fret, im not in for long, way to big a negative vibe on this forum for the likes of me to stand these days, way over my head!

 

I will take that as a subtle hint regarding the quality of information and refrain from any technical or constructive advice in all futures. I wouldnt want the forum to have its reputation tainted by such dribble as the cesspit of posts you have all endured at my hands.

 

im off to the lounge for a laugh!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

"No part of a tree has "channels", they have vessels (angiosperms) or Tracheids (gymnosperms) for fluid transport!"

 

Oxford English dictionary

Channel - biology - a tubular passage for liquids

Vessel - Botany - any of the tubular structures in the vascular system of a plant, serving to conduct water and mineral nutrients from the root.

 

I tell you what, I know a man who uses the term, and if he said it, you can bet your flippin bottom dollar you wouldnt be so pedantic about it then!

[Steve Bullman]

way to big a negative vibe on this forum for the likes of me to stand these days, way over my head!

 

 

Perhaps you missed the christmas raffle Tony, or the countless other positive threads littered throughout the forum. Maybe you are just referring to the threads you are posting in? Sorry, but I can't say I feel this negative vibe throughout the forum that you mention, and it's something I keep an eye on all the time

 

Anyway perhaps we can get back to the topic in hand without all this nonsense

[RobArb]

The fungus in the first pic looks like what was Inonotus dryadeus (sp.), you may also have Fistulina hepatica in there too.

 

Look them up in the fungi directory here and see what effects they have on the tree (oak). A far as assessment goes it's hard to say anything from those pics alone and if they are really worried you may want to get someone to inspect it in person just for "piece of mind".

 

Looks ok to me though for now.... (said with a pinch of salt:biggrin:)

 

 

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

 

 

Not wanting to step on anyone's toes or give myself a "big hed", these are just photos. Although we have the knowledge in relation to a symptom, the OP asked about this tree in particular.

 

I think its best (IMO) if he were to get someone close to him to look at it "in the flesh", if someone could do it for a favour, then all the better. If not, then i'm sure it wouldn't be the biggest fee at all....

 

Till then as i said, take my opinion with a pinch of salt but the tree is fine for the short term:biggrin: