Decay in 50 year old oak tree

[armybloke]

And here....

[Gary Prentice]

Both Wilkins, 1939 and Prljincevic 1982 showed that both ascospore and conidia can successfully colonise freshly injured sapwood. I stand corrected:blushing: I understood that Kretzchmaria (sp?) was a lower stem/root fungi only.

 

Learn something new everyday.

[MATTMOSS]

Both Wilkins, 1939 and Prljincevic 1982 showed that both ascospore and conidia can successfully colonise freshly injured sapwood. I stand corrected:blushing: I understood that Kretzchmaria (sp?) was a lower stem/root fungi only.

 

Learn something new everyday.

 

That's standard of answer could be used in a level 6 assignment.

[Gary Prentice]

That's standard of answer could be used in a level 6 assignment.

 

Fungal strategies of wood decay in trees! And with that I'm leaving work:sneaky2:

[treeseer]

Kd is endophytic; it can pop out anywhere!

[Tommy Noddy]

In reply to Adam N; The reason I ask the question about insurance and liability is as follows. Whenever we renew our contents insurance ( our house is rented) we get questions about the proximity of trees to the house. I assume trees next to a house are considered a risk. I can only guess that an insurers would like to mitigate loss and could do so by requiring trees to be inspected periodically. Other trees on the property have squirrel damage so must suffer some decay as a result. Landlord knows about this.....but has no interest. Luckily they do not overhang the property. The Forestry Commission is our other neighbour and claim to inspect their trees every year.

 

As regards the decay on this 50 year old oak. Was difficult to spot but luckily sun was shining from just right direction that day. Power company staff were clearing lines 4 days later.....Lucky escape

[JonnyVine]

Both Wilkins, 1939 and Prljincevic 1982 showed that both ascospore and conidia can successfully colonise freshly injured sapwood. I stand corrected:blushing: I understood that Kretzchmaria (sp?) was a lower stem/root fungi only.

 

Learn something new everyday.

 

Apology accepted Gaz, unfortunately there seems to be a growing trend on here that arboriculture can be learned from Google and books alone, this is untrue, the majority of learning comes from EXPERIENCE.

[Gary Prentice]

Apology accepted Gaz, unfortunately there seems to be a growing trend on here that arboriculture can be learned from Google and books alone, this is untrue, the majority of learning comes from EXPERIENCE.

 

Got thirty years of experience on the tools, but either haven't come across it or failed to recognize it for what it was; thats when the books come in handy:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thats a gano rot, the tree has had a hard life with occlusion rolls at the base

[Tommy Noddy]

Many thanks for all your input. Don't work in this business but fascinated by what you do. If I was 30 years youger......