Help Needed!!!

[T.C]

Hi Guys,

 

I have a client who's just had an Alder blow over and flatten his car. There was no root plate/roots at all. I immediately thought Meripilus giganteus. But couldn't find the fruiting body anywhere. My question is there anything else that can cause this?

 

Thank you.

 

TC

[sloth]

Even with no fruiting body, it still be Merip. Or Armillaria, or anything else! Is the need to know just curiosity?

[T.C]

Need to be a bit more accurate as a insurance company is involved. It had be recently surveyed. Not by me luckily. So you would have thought if it was Armillaria it would have been picked up on?

 

Cheers

[Paul Jenks]

Not everything gets picked up in a survey. It's not always down to human error either. If there's no obvious fungus with the tree on the floor and the roots in the air, how is a surveyor going to pick something up with the tree standing.

 

Pictures would be good.

[T.C]

The reason I didn't think Armillaria is I couldn't find any rhizomorphs. I take your point Paul.

[sloth]

Pictures would certainly be good. I still don't understand why you need to be more accurate though. It was recently surveyed, nothing noted, it then falls and the insurance company get involved - correct? If my assumptions are correct I'd expect the insurance company covering the damage to take it up with the surveyor, if they wanted to.

[Jon Heuch]

Pictures would certainly be good. I still don't understand why you need to be more accurate though. It was recently surveyed, nothing noted, it then falls and the insurance company get involved - correct? If my assumptions are correct I'd expect the insurance company covering the damage to take it up with the surveyor, if they wanted to.

Indeed. Why do you think a fungus was involved? Could just be poor root development. Let the insurance company deal with it.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Pictures would certainly be good. I still don't understand why you need to be more accurate though. It was recently surveyed, nothing noted, it then falls and the insurance company get involved - correct? If my assumptions are correct I'd expect the insurance company covering the damage to take it up with the surveyor, if they wanted to.

 

 

Thinking the same.....

[treeseer]

:sneaky2:Could be many things; CO2 poisoning from leaky pipe, hydrology, bad vibes, big crown, big wind...

 

Does insurance pay more if a fungus is implicated?

 

Smells like honey dunnit?

Edited April 17, 2015 by treeseer