Beech bark - why the difference?

[Amelanchier]

Ah but Beech bark disease is a secondary fungal infection facilitated by the scale as a vector. So you can often have the scale without the beech bark disease...

[woodyguy]

Good point. Would you usually see the insect only infect one tree out of a clump of five like this? Seems an unusual way for insects to behave.

[Peasgood]

I wondered how just one could be infected too.

[Amelanchier]

Unusual perhaps but not uncommon. Those five trees won't be identical and one of them has to be first - also the OP only showed us two pictures!

[LumberJake]

I also have an example of this on a Beech tree in a woods down my lane. It is the only Beech in the Beech woodland that has this type of bark on it. I will try to post a few pics when I get home.

 

Jake

[armybloke]

What's the orientation, aspect and exposure of the two specimens in terms of where the pictures were taken from Marco?

 

 

Is the bark in the first shot the same all around the trunk?

 

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The trees are not exposed parse, they are within what I would describe as a large garden with woodland. The bark is the same all around the stem AND in the crown on limbs over about 3 years old.

 

These are the only mature Beech for some distance and I surmise that the original owner planted them along with sweet chestnut and oak for a crop? He may have kept pigs perhaps? There is a pond on site too - watering livestock maybe? I am unsure of the history of the site.

 

The odd thing David is that only 1 out of the 5 looked like this.

 

Tony, have you seen anything like this in your 'beech travels'?

 

Marco

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The trees are not exposed parse, they are within what I would describe as a large garden with woodland. The bark is the same all around the stem AND in the crown on limbs over about 3 years old.

 

These are the only mature Beech for some distance and I surmise that the original owner planted them along with sweet chestnut and oak for a crop? He may have kept pigs perhaps? There is a pond on site too - watering livestock maybe? I am unsure of the history of the site.

 

The odd thing David is that only 1 out of the 5 looked like this.

 

Tony, have you seen anything like this in your 'beech travels'?

 

Marco

 

I see the bark in sun scalded beech also