Kretzschmaria deusta on a big Beech

[Bart]

Thought id have a go at posting a vid. Cant get it to embed tho:sad:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsCHVclgPlA]YouTube - Kretzschmaria deusta on large Beech[/ame]

 

 

Kretzschmaria deusta on a big Beech (12',10" dbh), sits with a slight lean just next to the rose garden:ohmy:

[Bart]

ok it has embeded

[Lancstree]

Which symptoms in particular are visible in the clip. I see lots of black lesions which look to be bacterial canker. Is it the white fruiting body on the butress at 30 seconds?

[skyhuck]

 

Kretzschmaria deusta on a big Beech (12',10" dbh), sits with a slight lean just next to the rose garden:ohmy:

 

I think you must mean 12' 10" breast hight "circumference" not diameter .

[Bart]

Lancstree Immature fruiting bodies at 15 & 30 sec

 

skyhuck put the tape around at breast hight and it measured 12' 10" so yes circumference:blushing:

 

 

 

 

[Lancstree]

I'll keep an eye out for that. It seems a potentially serious thing from what I've read

[Bart]

If I had’nt read Hannah’s thread Ustulina deusta and Monkeyd thread Ustulina - Nasty little Blighter I probably wouldn’t have spotted it.

 

I was aware of the bleeding canker’s on the trunk and on the right hand buttress roots, I have since found out that these may be associated with Kretzschmaria deusta.

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/video-forum/6765-ustulina-deusta.html

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/5853-ustulina-nasty-little-blighter.html

[combined tree services]

looks quite nasty , how big is the host tree ?? i felled a sycamore a few weeks back that was infected with Kretzschmaria deusta , from the a visual inspection you would not assume there was any thing majorly wrong structually but after using a decay detection drill it was evedent that the sound wall thicknes was only 10-11%. the tree was situated in a park and lent out over the grassed area , hence we felled it the same day , then next day we came to stump grind it and i was amaed to see how major the decay was , we took 25 mins to grind the stump that was 26-28 inches accros .

[Bart]

Height wise im not sure, circumference of the trunk was 12' 10".

Would like to have some decay detection done, not sure what type, or which would give the best results?

This is a major landscape tree, so felling would be the last resort; it would also open up a wind tunnel towards another declining Beech.

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[nuggsy]

picus tomograph would be the best i reckon bart but could be very expensive, i know it is up here