Help please

[Guss109]

Hi went to look at a job to remove 6 trees that are all dead but was wondering what might have caused it? I'm not very good at the fungi side so any help would be appreciated

Found this at the base of one of them

Most of them are covered in this

The site is an old hospital thats been converted into a fair size estate so was thinking thats not helped them in any way at all. Here is a few more pictures I took to give a better idea of the trees over all

 

As you can see a lot of the bark has started to come of and there shedding a lot of branches.

Cheers craig

 

 

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[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Difficult to say as they appear to be long dead.

At a guess I would say possibly a combination of inundation and road salt.

 

That's my best guess from the pics provided.

[Guss109]

Cheers mate if you want any more pics I can easy nip over and get some just let us know what you want to see

[Guss109]

Anyone else got any ideas??

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

too limited a set of images/data

[Guss109]

too limited a set of images/data

 

What kind of photos would be more helpfull? As can easy get more tomorrow if it will help.

 

Cheers

Craig

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

What kind of photos would be more helpfull? As can easy get more tomorrow if it will help.

 

Cheers

Craig

 

closeups of the soil in various places around the tree, some really wide shots to give the entire scene from several angles, and any knowledge youcan glean about history of site, recent works, gas mains etc, thinning of tree populations etc:thumbup:

[Guss109]

closeups of the soil in various places around the tree, some really wide shots to give the entire scene from several angles, and any knowledge youcan glean about history of site, recent works, gas mains etc, thinning of tree populations etc:thumbup:

 

Cheers tony will swing in by tomorrow and get them. As far as I know this was one of the first bits to be developed about eight years ago and there is a foot path running through this small belt of trees. It is right next to what was the main compound/site office also it looks like the grass area behind them has only been seeded recently so not to sure how much of the surrounding area has been tracked up for the services to the buildings. It just seems to be this six trees all next to each other that have suffered whilst the rest look ok. Will do some more digging when I go back tomorrow and get some more detailed photos.

[Guss109]

Nipped back up today so got some more photos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully they help

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Nipped back up today so got some more photos

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Hopefully they help

 

 

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root damage and dessication leading to secondary issues like bark scorching and armillaria attack