Ganoderma applanatum/adspersum

[Hannah]

This is a Beech tree in a park in Ireland. Have been watching it for a few years, crown is thinning more each year. Excuse quality - unfamiliar camera.

[Mesterh]

Nice pics.

I always think i strange the way Ganoderma seems to fruit mainly between butress's its seems to like hidy hole places

[Mozza]

Cool pics , surely that needs to be felled?? looks pretty bad to me!!

[nuggsy]

bit of a thin mybe ? like the pics

[Peter]

Leave the poor tree alone to die in peace! If you really wanted to "save" it then a repollard would give it the best chance of long term survival.

[Mesterh]

repollard you mean fell to 12 feet

 

Pity there is a picnic area in back ground, nice looking tree though.

[Linda]

Cool pics , surely that needs to be felled?? looks pretty bad to me!!

 

Just move the picnic area! Lovely tree. Nice photos Hannah.

[Hannah]

you could move the bench, but its also the prime duck feeding spot for the whole lake:001_smile: I reckon about 50 people stand underneath it daily.

Nothing will be done to it, will be interesting to see it progress.

[David Humphries]

Cool pics , surely that needs to be felled?? looks pretty bad to me!!

 

 

 

Warrants further investigation for sure.

 

But needs to be felled?

 

 

 

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[gibbon]

Leave the poor tree alone to die in peace! If you really wanted to "save" it then a repollard would give it the best chance of long term survival.

 

Do you really think that it would survive pollarding? My feelings are that it would not. Even if it did survive, the extreme foliage loss would surley hasted the fungi's destruction of the tree.