Unexplained dust tree damage

[woodwoozles]

Hello Forum,

 

I was sent this pic of a tree which had been looped at 35ft as you can see it's covered in ivy and has a bracket fungus on it. Sorry forgotten the name.

 

The tree seams to have localised dust on it. (Not up and down the trunk.)

Un likely that it's from a saw, as the tree beside has no dust on it.

 

I'm thinking a insect has done this.

Anyone have any ideas.

 

Sid road. Sidmouth

 

 

I will have my mate have another look tomorrow.

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

I can't be certain from the photo, but is the dust fungal spores?

[Paul Barton]

I can't be certain from the photo, but is the dust fungal spores?

 

 

I'd say so. I can count about 10 Ganoderma sp. brackets on the butt and lower stem poking through the ivy.

[swinny]

I'd say so. I can count about 10 Ganoderma sp. brackets on the butt and lower stem poking through the ivy.

 

Yup, seen some on a beech i viewed at the weekend

[woodwoozles]

Fungal spores from the Ganoderma sp.

okay the chap said it was like soil consistency

 

 

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[woodwoozles]

Cheers for the heads up, don't take the piss too heavily...I'm an ex Sparsholt student...it was ages ago

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Wow - lovely load of Ganoderma on that stem!

[daltontrees]

I'd say so. I can count about 10 Ganoderma sp. brackets on the butt and lower stem poking through the ivy.

 

And going by the dust pattern there will be a few more up the stem out of shot.

 

Or somebody has sneezed in a tin of cocoa powder nearby.