David Humphries

Looks like Birmingham was hit pretty hard by yesterdays winds. We lost 5 sizeable trees ourselves in the middle of North London. Thoughts with the injured party who was involved in the incident below, hope he pulls through ok. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-32133368 Weoley Castle tree fall leaves man critically injured as high winds sweep across the city - Birmingham Mail .

Good comment Hang on in there matey .

Looks like G. sepiarium from your gill shot. Any other info? Spore colour should be white Top surface slightly hairy & zoned? Orangey/brown? .

appears to be Ash canker Pseudomonas syringae spp. savastanoi pv. fraxini .

BBC Radio 2 - Simon Mayo Drivetime, Caitlin Moran Runs for 6 minutes from about 16:30...... Good guy and good professional is Tim, had the pleasure of working with him before. Nice to hear Arboriculture/Tree surgery being discussed and getting some airtime on national radio .

Revisiting something from earlier in the thread. Shot taken from work of the construction of the Shard, then a few images taken this weekend from the 69th floor. View of the capital was pretty decent but couldn't see work as it was a bit too gloomy. .

Did Mr Dowson show/talk about the mulch trials on the veterans? Not had the opportunity to visit yet, hopefully one day. .

Although the new website is up and running there's still a few holes to fill. I was speaking with the ATF development officer the other day about the section on trees to visit. I get the impression that after Easter the site will be up and running where they want it to be. .

Multiple fruiting locations would suggest extensive decay, white rot on oak, particularly roadside, is a condition to be extremely cautious about. Sounds like a good call. I'm off today seeing the quack about a gammy knee. Was good to see you at Michal's leaving drink, you missed the whiskey session Breakfast at Highgate was a good antidote. Going to miss Michal on the team, he's a fine climber and all round good guy. Will be interesting to see who applies for the job and how the team develops moving forward. .

Location and situation just doesn't lend itself to maintaining it does it. Is the fruiting on opposite sides of the trunk? Any shots of the entire tree? .

Resi for sure, bit surprised you weren't 100% on the Id, bit rusty? So coming out mainly due to the ongoing subsidence claims rather than risk of failure? Will you get the chance to see a lower cross section of the decay before its ground out? Good to see you posting again .

Sean is now able to update us all & has started a thread....... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/86269-my-accident.html I'm now closing this thread, so please use the new one to convey your messages of support. Thanks .

Placed a couple of tethers on a beech pollard that has significant Kretzschmaria & Ganoderma basal issues. We reduced it recently via a highline....... [ame] [/ame] Even with the reduction we felt it needed a little more management. We chose 2 beech maidens apporximately 17m away as anchor trees .

Sadly, I fear nowhere near as many people as should have. I've seen a number of tree reports concerning veteran trees over the last year that don't even reference it .

Statistically, that's not true Tom. Trees that are implicated in fatalities are more often larger or siuated where there are many static & passing targets. The chances of a tree like this lime killing someone are incredibly low. I'm not saying this tree should be maintained specifically, but the chances of it being replaced by a specimen that will establish & provide as many benefits as this one in its urban context are slim, in my experience. .

Picture of the Oudemensiellas toward the back is shoddy A bit dissapointed that you'd not picked up on the publication being available for download, I had posted this at least twice. Once on the thread about the book. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/ecology/55528-ancient-other-veteran-trees-further-guidance-management-3.html Perhaps I need to broaden the spread of this type of news? .

Grifola is a fruit body with pores Your image shows gills. Good one Kevin Shelliporus whelkureus ? .

The tree looks to have good vitality which would suggest that cyclical repollarding is an option to maintaiin the aesthetics and deal with the stability issue. The dilema I would have is the the location. The basal damage looks mechanical possibly due to being on a corner and being hit numerously by bin lorries, delivery/removal vehicles etc...... Its possibly going to be an ongoing issue for this and any other replacement if planted in its place. I don't think the pretruding white road lines are really going to stop that being a problem .

Nice tree, nice work, nice photos .

sorry, what was obvious? .

I'd imagine it could be upper surface roots, but may also be peripheral outer roots. Number of reasons which may include compaction, mechanical damage, decay and/or anaerobic soil conditions .

Outer most branches have become dysfunctional and died, sticking out and beyond the retrenching canopy. Usually directly associated to compromised rooting environment. .

I don't snore..........but I make a good stab at mimicking a chainsaw, apparantly .

Welcome to the site Patrick and thank you for giving the heads up on what will be a very useful document/guidance. Particularly like the idea of the Micro Guide, this will undoubtedly make it a lot more accessible to a wide audience. .

This mirrors Schwarze & Ferners work where they also suggest that G. adspersum/australe has the ability to penetrate intact reaction zones between decayed & sound wood volumes and progress through the sapwood, which in essence is reducing the residual wall strength. This is the reason it's important to differentiate the species when a Fb is discovered on a tree being inspected, certainly when it comes to the two similar Gano species. The crux will be the vitality of the tree in question. If high, then its likely that G. applanatum can be left confined to the dysfunctinal core as its largely saprophytic. But if vitality is low then applanatum will probably lead to stability issues. http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachments/fungi-pictures/116928d1362903479-ganoderma-enspec-20research-20paper-20-20ganoderma-20on-20trees.pdf&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ei=RQMMVbzeFJDeat_3gNAE&ved=0CBQQFjAA&sig2=wJbtGuiFS8oSpo-F0h8ZeA&usg=AFQjCNEk3BqRvZglHc0o1QsvMhkGndYSsQ .