Never seen this one before...

[Tom Joye]

I've not seen this in real life either and had imagined it to be something you'd find mostly in pine woodland, but David's one looks like an isolated pine in the middle of a deciduous wood? Are there many other potential hosts in the vicinity? Or did that spore just get lucky?

 

Same up here, some old pines scattered in a deciduous wood (oak, beech, sweet chestnut, ...) That's already two lucky spores I'm going back to this estate tomorrow, I'll try to find out if any of the other pines are infected and I'll try to take some more pictures of the tree and his surroundings.

[David Humphries]

I've not seen this in real life either and had imagined it to be something you'd find mostly in pine woodland, but David's one looks like an isolated pine in the middle of a deciduous wood? Are there many other potential hosts in the vicinity? Or did that spore just get lucky?

 

 

It does look solitary, but it is on a line of old Pines running on a ridge, that were set alone before secondary encroachment took hold.

 

Here it is from another thread with Hetrobasidium on (Post 21)

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/6031-trees-our-botanicultural-heritage-3.html

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[Tom Joye]

some more pics. Sadly enough, the fruiting body was gone by the time I passed there teaching VTA. Since it's not edible, I guess some punks (been one too, so I forgive them) just kicked it around. The pine has quite extensive brown rot in it and it's leaning over a path, but as this (public!) parc is closed during high winds, the trees can die standing (not my decision, so sont' freak out ). As you can see, the crowns of all the old pines in the area are quite torn apart (by wind I guess).

[David Humphries]

Interesting Management approach

 

Excluding the target in high winds is one level of control, but if felling is deffinately not an option then diverting the target/path to a alternative access could be another level.

 

Thanks for getting these context shots Tom.

 

 

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