Fungi on sycamore

[swinny]

Whilst on my holls up near grassington

 

I spotted a reduced / rounded over large mature sycamore

 

Any how i looked over the fence to see an old dessicated bracket on the floor, which i was thinking was polyporus.

 

It looks to have come from an old pruning wound / cavity located on the stem near the roadside, 2 metres or so above the main fork.

 

I've seen how polyporus works on sycamores and have seen some extensive white rot in the stems going up to 1.5 - 2 metres from the fruiting body.

 

Although the pictures are bad, they do not show the lean towards the house and the "weight" that is still up there and the size of the tree!

 

I know the sail has been reduced but curious to see how you would have managed the tree?

[swinny]

nobody?

[daveindales]

Chris, I'm completely baffled by the question

 

What on earth are you doing on holiday in Grassington??? It's only about 10 miles from where you live.

 

Sorry, can't help with the syc

[swinny]

Chris, I'm completely baffled by the question

 

What on earth are you doing on holiday in Grassington??? It's only about 10 miles from where you live.

 

Sorry, can't help with the syc

 

Lol me and missus got a campervan and testing the water

 

Should the tree have been retained? Is my question. All the weight combined with possible pocket of rot due to polyporous in one of the main stem with all that leverage near the house....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Polyporus squamosus

[swinny]

Polyporus squamosus

 

Would you feel ok leaving such weight up there above where the bracket has been? I dont think i would...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Would you feel ok leaving such weight up there above where the bracket has been? I dont think i would...

 

THE BRACKETS ARE SMALL AND NOT NUMEROUS, THE REDUCTION WAS HEAVY, IT'LL BE FINE FOR MANY MOONS. (caps lock:blushing:)

 

I would be more concerned by the lack, in fact almost inverted basal flare

[skyhuck]

I'd want it felled, not because of safety, but because it looks hideous.

[Matthew Arnold]

I'd want it felled, not because of safety, but because it looks hideous.

 

And the Firewood of course. There was tree near me which had the same done last winter. This winter it is on the deck and is filling the homeowners woodstore.

[Jesse]

Yawn, Yawn, that reduction was the nail in the coffin door, Remove, besides Polyporus squamosus I would also bet that that tree has Cryptostroma corticale who ever agreed to reduce such a fine tree should be shot.