Ash dieback?

[jacquemontii]

Hi,

 

Can anyone please help to identify the problem with this ash (on right)?

 

Is this ash dieback? Or something else? Or is it simply turning early for autumn?

[headgroundsman]

Looking at the grass it is very dry and any water would run straight off. Ash trees are turning like that round here too. I think it is drought and autumn myself but no expert

[Adam M]

100% not ash dieback.

[Stubby]

Beginning of Autumn .

[Kveldssanger]

Beginning of Autumn .

 

The borough I work in is laden with ash and there are many instances where the crowns are thin throughout the summer. Very much akin to this ash on the right hand side.

[MATTMOSS]

Doesn't look anything like it to me.

[john k]

It looks very much like quotannis foliis brunneis to me.

 

This is something that is increasingly being confused with Chalara ash dieback, but is much less serious. It repeatedly affects the majority of UK native trees and although it can lead to them appearing to be completely dead they almost always recover completely within a few months.