Severe bleeding canker on an ash

[slack ma girdle]

bacterial wetwood from quercus cerris IMO

 

[treeseer]

How is this treated in the UK?

[treequip]

How is this treated in the UK?

 

In the whole, with a chainsaw, a big chainsaw

[davidjm55]

Thanks for the input lads, bacterial wetwood would seem to be the problem. I've just been reading up on the causes and symptoms and it seems highly likely that this is what it is.

 

Perhaps the tree became infected with the bacteria through its roots and it's this that has caused the limbs that you can see in the photo to split, and then of course the slime appears. I couldn't get really close up to the tree because on the day it was blowing a gale, the tree's on quite a steep bank and I didn't fancy a dip in the pool.

 

You learn something new every day.....

Thanks again

[Peasgood]

Supposing it were a giraffe or a deer that did actually cause the damage, would they have had to be able to swim?

Just can't figure out where the pond is in all this.

 

Looks like hedgecutter damage to the ends of the branches, I guess that would have needed flotation tyres too.

[davidjm55]

Just so you can see it here's a picture of the pond taken a few yards further along from the oak. Perhaps it was a hippo.....

[ADB328]

bacterial wetwood from quercus cerris IMO

 

I concur