Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....

[chris cnc]

ive got it, Trichaptum abietinum ??

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

could you count how many pores per MM? is it 4-6?

[chris cnc]

per mm squared that sounds about right, although they are tiny so hard to say

[chris cnc]

the bracket in the pics is about the size of a 50p peice

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

ive got it, Trichaptum abietinum ??

 

yep i reckon your on the money here, i thought it looked like something else but after finding the image and name it didnt match with your slim zoned pored and less sessile fungus!

[chris cnc]

yep i reckon your on the money here, i thought it looked like something else but after finding the image and name it didnt match with your slim zoned pored and less sessile fungus!

 

haha, i found it in the collins gem, then googled and found these pic which are pretty much an exact match:

 

Purplepore Bracket (Trichaptum abietinum)

 

phew, ill sleep tonight

[Simon Rotheram]

Inspected an Ash tree this lump had fallen off and almost hit the guy on his head (or so he said!!)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

hispidus, whopper too, means loads of residual strength too

[Simon Rotheram]

hispidus, whopper too, means loads of residual strength too

 

The client is worried the large low limb is going to fail when he's cutting his lawn, the tree has already been reduced in the past.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The client is worried the large low limb is going to fail when he's cutting his lawn, the tree has already been reduced in the past.

 

Its a difficult thing really, end of the day the Inonotus hispidus WILL drop that limb, reducing the tree reduces its capacity to defend against the attck, catch 22!

 

I would reduc that heavy limb though, tis inevitable otherwise, try and drop out a central portion and leave two sub order limbs at the cut, this should reduce the wieght considerably and sail on the limb, but still leave it relativley well fed. far better than to lose the whole thing leaving a massive wound with huge dysfunction and rapid colonisation as well as the progressive canker that will go with this fungus and a limb loss.