Anyone know what this is????

[The Tree Hunter]

This was inside a cavity on the main stem of a lime tree, any offers as to what it is???

 

 

[cerneARB]

mmm..could be a slime flux or bacterial wetwood me thinks.Does it smelly funny like methane?

[cerneARB]

just looked it up in Strouts and winter. Could also be causican canker of lime.When the tree flushes is the top upper most crown foilage yellowed and lacking foilage?Any cankers on the Stem?Dying bark?Staining below the cankers..black brown stains?

[The Tree Hunter]

mmm..could be a slime flux or bacterial wetwood me thinks.Does it smelly funny like methane?

 

 

Couldn't get my hand in to touch it or smell it, had to press my phone up to the gap in the stem to get the pick, there seemed to be a few patches of it and the stem looks well decayed inside, but the tree on the whole doesn't look too bad.........compared to some of the others!!!

[cerneARB]

Sounds like bacterial action then tree hunter.The wood decay process...but then im no expert, i could be wrong..just my opinion.

[Ian Leach]

A bat with diorrea:001_tongue:

[The Tree Hunter]

just looked it up in Strouts and winter. Could also be causican canker of lime.When the tree flushes is the top upper most crown foilage yellowed and lacking foilage?Any cankers on the Stem?Dying bark?Staining below the cankers..black brown stains?

 

Apart from the crack and cavity, the actual tree doesn't look too bad, couldnt say about foliage mate as i've not seen it yet in that state. I'll have a look through and see if i can find any pics of the tree.