Fungus on a Mature Horse Chestnut

[hazforester]

Hi All,

 

Woundering if anyone can help me?

 

I found this fungus on a mature Horse Chestnut, and I am not sure what it is!.

 

I have my susspions that it is Polyporus squamosus, but is old.

 

reading discriptions of the fungus, it should be soft in texture.

 

I need to make use i have the right fungus as the tree is located on a busy main road, in a conservation area and also has a TPO on it.

 

Any help would be greatly recived.

 

Haz

[David Humphries]

Polyporus squamosus the dryads saddle

 

the squamules (flakes on the surface of the cap) have desiccated

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-fungi-82.html

 

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[treequip]

Polyporus squamosus the dryads saddle

 

the squamules (flakes on the surface of the cap) have desiccated

 

 

Polyporus squamosus - Dryads saddle - David Humphries’s Fungi Directory - Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists

 

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Loving it, that's my word of the day

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Loving it, that's my word of the day

 

 

[Paul Jenks]

Urban Dictionary: Squamule

[treeseer]

I get the pun with the mule, but where does Harry fit in?

 

O and now that you know the fungus, how does that inform management decisions?

[hazforester]

That is the question.

 

How would people manage this?

 

Tree is located on a busy main road, however the branch with the main areas of the fungus is located on next to a field.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Horse chestnut? polyporus squamosus?

 

probably, leaf miner and Psuedomona added to the mix

 

I never like making these decisions, heres one I did an emergency fell on over the weekend, two stem historic lim failures (so an Aesculus habit) P. squamosus at 30 ft at old wound site massive limb lower down historic limb loss.

 

Psuedomona strip canker at union.

 

To make the decision easy it was leaning over an entrance gate to an estate, the gates electric, they sat right under the tree while waiting for the gates to open, over a hundred peoplea day using it, was only one way to go.