Interesting Biomechanics

[andrew t]

Or reaction to the lack of space for roots to grow .

[Matthew Arnold]

Hello just wondered would the fluting be from the tree being planted high when at a nursery stage or maybe their was a pathogen but it was not present at the time of the pic I now kretz likes a bit of lime their dosent seem to be much epicormic at the base and the tree looks in good health but must be responding to some kind of stress because of the fluting.

 

Not sure but the trees in the avenue are between 150-250 years old and all different shapes and sizes. No kretz in any of them.... yet but the ones nearer the main road have fairly substantial epicormic at the bases. There is an acess road to a small car park which would explain the butressing on the other side of the tree. There is alot of fresh orange bark on show this year and in some case the butresses look like they are splitting internally to give two for the price of one. I shall get pictures of the entire avenue this afternoon when i am out with the dogs. One of the trees has a fair bit of butress damage thanks to a local boyracer driving over them last year but it seams to be callousing nicely.

[treeseer]

...There is alot of fresh orange bark on show this year and in some case the butresses look like they are splitting internally to give two for the price of one...

Beautiful tree! No sign of fungus as stressor; seems to be all due to thigmomorphogenesis; shape changing in response to movement. Nice camera work getting the crown like that.

[andrew t]

wow i like that word learned something new there.

[Matthew Arnold]

Here are the shots of the more interesting Limes in the avenue.

 

1-7 - Next a main road. No salt from road as on 3 ft bank.

8-11 - Next tree up. Nice open union.

12-14 - Not much room to grow but still healthy.

15-17 - Large co-dominant stem branching out but adapting well.

18-24 - A well fluted tree with another nice open union and very healthy crown.

25-32 - Damage to butresses on south west side of tree. Also has damage caused by bin wagon/lorry to large leading stem.

33-40 - Very little growing room and a far reaching limb with adaptive growth to counter act large sail at the top.

41-46 - Smooth bark with lots of crack but no lesions. Suspect Armillaria at play due to smooth bark and slight sink.

 

Food for thought with all those pics.

[RobArb]

If you've got a spare hour this is well worth a watch:thumbup:

 

Frank Rinn Risk mitigation: Bananas, carrots and tree biomechanics. How to understand trees from their body language and measure on Vimeo

[David Humphries]

If you've got a spare hour this is well worth a watch:thumbup:]

 

 

Spare hour

 

Haven't got a spare second for that load of tosh.

Where's the dancing girls and light show ???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kidding

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[Xerxses]

Spare hour

 

Haven't got a spare second for that load of tosh.

Where's the dancing girls and light show ???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kidding

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That is from the Stockholm seminar hosted by Swedish Arborist Federation-SAF!

 

Sveriges Arboristförbund - SAF

 

Good find Rob:thumbup1:

[RobArb]

Spare hour

 

Haven't got a spare second for that load of tosh.

Where's the dancing girls and light show ???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kidding

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On a more serious note, do you subscribe to these theories (yes you will need to watch it:001_tt2:)

 

Would like to hear someone else's opinions on it:biggrin:

[sloth]

Ill try and watch it, when that spare time appears!