saddle and 2 gano

[openspaceman]

Some recent finds and a worry, Dryadd's saddle is on a branch tear out wound, probably 1987. Sycamore has formed good reaction wood in the callus but I doubt the wall thickness is sufficient to prevent buckling. 15 metre tree with full crown near a busy traffic light.

 

Second set is of what I take to be Ganoderma resinaceum in a cavity on a 100+ year twin stemmed beech adjacent to a minor road.

 

 

The third set is a puzzle because although the situation, low in between buttresses of a red oak (Q. borealis), and look suggest adspersum it marks with a brown line like Ganoderma applanatum. If it is adspersum (there is another conk below the soil line in the furrow between buttresses) and given the tree is showing 20% dieback, deadwooded itself last winter and has pronounced buttress flares I wonder just how muck root is supporting it.

 

[sloth]

Given the location the sycamore does sound dodgy.

On your beech, have you considered Innonotus cuticularis?

The oak I can't really say anything about...

[openspaceman]

Given the location the sycamore does sound dodgy.

On your beech, have you considered Innonotus cuticularis?

The oak I can't really say anything about...

 

No I hadn't, not knowingly having come across it before. From the description it sound more aggressive than Gano and given the amount of decayed hollow will condemn the tree.