Fire damage to fungi

[Jake Andrews]

On a walk in my local woods and spotted this sycamore which has been vandalised by the kids. It seems to be the local trend at the minute of setting off fires into decay pockets of various trees. My question is, do you think fire could have an effect on the mycelium of fungi and could it destroy it or set it back? Iv not had any personal experience of this and I'll keep an eye on it to see if anything delops. Your thoughts?

[Jake Andrews]

On a walk in my local woods and spotted this sycamore which has been vandalised by the kids. It seems to be the local trend at the minute of setting off fires into decay pockets of various trees. My question is, do you think fire could have an effect on the mycelium of fungi and could it destroy it or set it back? Iv not had any personal experience of this and I'll keep an eye on it to see if anything delops. Your thoughts?

 

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[Kveldssanger]

It would remove the potential wood substrate for the fungi, though if additional wounds have been created and fungal mycelium exists far enough away from the source of heat then it could simply re-colonise the new area of wounded wood tissue (I would suspect).

[Jake Andrews]

Being whipper snappers they don't know much about starting fires properly and so it looked like a fast burning fire and as far as I can see there was little or no visible further damage to new wood. I wonder if the fungi may show its face this autumn due to wounding of the mycelium or lack of wood to feed on.

[Haironyourchest]

Kids these days...I dunno......at least they're getting out in the open air, that's something. My money says the fungi mycelium will be fine. I hope.

[Jake Andrews]

Here's another that will be interesting to see how it performs.