funig on ash

[swinny]

Hi there.

 

Spotted this the other day when walking dog.

 

Quite big at the base this ash. Bark fallen off. Very soft white rot. Desicated fruit bodies and some behind the bark. No rhizomorphs bu thinking honey fungus?

 

Will the tree have had some damage at the base for this to happen or is this tree been a long standing house for a colony of fungi?

 

P.s will post pics soon. Bloody phone!

[swinny]

No the best pictures etc.... Also you could poke your finger right into the side of the tree

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

looks like old mellea clump, but could also be Pholiota Aurivella/squarrosus but my money is on the former, especially with the bark plates loosening

[swinny]

looks like old mellea clump, but could also be Pholiota Aurivella/squarrosus but my money is on the former, especially with the bark plates loosening

 

the rot seems to be at the tension side of the tree opposite to the lean

 

wonder how long it will stand like this, and who's duty it is to sort it out!

 

does mellea cause hollowing of the stem or just the soft rot?

 

Just thinking of when diagnosing others i.e when checking with mallet etc to sound for if its hollow

 

cheers

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

the rot seems to be at the tension side of the tree opposite to the lean

 

wonder how long it will stand like this, and who's duty it is to sort it out!

 

does mellea cause hollowing of the stem or just the soft rot?

 

Just thinking of when diagnosing others i.e when checking with mallet etc to sound for if its hollow

 

cheers

 

Mellea is not a soft rot, although I understand the confusion, as its simaltaneous rot leaving soft fibres, soft rot is in fact the most hardened and brittle of all the rots, I know its confusing, a lot struGgle with that

[skyhuck]

The blue dot suggests its being monitored by some one, is that Esp lane??

[swinny]

The blue dot suggests its being monitored by some one, is that Esp lane??

 

No, other end of barnoldswick

 

Also seen a few other sprayed dots on tree's but no action taken place with them

[skyhuck]

The Highways may have told the land owner to sort them or they may just be waiting for their own men or a contractor to get to them