Help - few fungi ID's please

[_Andy]

 

Before and after I stripped some of the bark on the ash tree.

Bark seemed strongly attached and I could not see any black mycelium, tried several places.

 

Thanks

[sloth]

Hi new to this forum but could really do with some help identifying these few fungi.

 

What fungi would cause a ash tree to fall over by its roots like this, roots look as though they have just broken apart! [ATTACH]175676[/ATTACH][ATTACH]175677[/ATTACH]

 

Gonna need more to go on. Were the decayed broken roots

soft and wet, fibrous and dry, stringy, smelly, discoloured, hard and brittle? An educated (wild) guess could be Armillaria, or Pholliota squarossa is pretty common on ash roots ime.

 

 

 

 

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Would I be right in saying this is some sort of aphid attacking this let leylandii hedge

 

 

Could well be. Does the railway embankment get a hefty regular dose of glyphosate which could have drifted through?

 

 

 

 

Not sure whether this is a fungi a beetle or just lots of wounds that haven't healed over properly on a sweet chestnut.

They are quite deep and there when about 20 or more on a 10ft section near the base of the Sweet chestnut. None of the other SWs close had these holes in them. [ATTACH]175686[/ATTACH][ATTACH]175687[/ATTACH]

 

Thanks for your help in advance!

No idea on this I'm afraid...

[_Andy]

Thanks and Apologies for late reply

 

Roots of the ash were very wet and squishy, possible a bit discoloured.