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I have received a Stat Notice to remove a considerable number of Larch Trees. The Neighbouring wood has Phytophthora Ramorum and as a consequence a 100 meter radius round the infection has to be felled or poisoned and a portion of this falls into my wood. This has to be dealt with before the end of April before the Larch start to spore. I may fell but I would like any information on the best way of killing the standing tree by Ring Barking and the use of Herbiside injection What to use and best practice.?? This would be the quick fix method to comply with the Stat Notice so I may embark on this route before major felling. Cheers

Hi Obviously cant be sure that your Magnolia has phytophthora Ramorum but your image looks like some symtoms I have seen. There seems to be a bit of a panic on about p.r at the moment huge down in devon and if you go on to the forestry commision site you can follow its spread. You can guess where I live, most northern and westerly point on the out break map. You may live in one of the Hot spots worth checking. affects Magnolia and Pieris but the host plant is normally Rhodedendron (ponticum) the purple one, thats why you should check if you have that in abundance in the near vacinity. Its spread by spores thats why they are felling vast amounts of Larch at the moment if it gets on to them the spread is dramatically increased. Keep these Arb boys working!! Not a plant specialist or Bioligist just having to deal with this problem head on at the moment. Still worth sampling youself before the men in white suits get wind of it.. Dont Panic Cheers

Hi I have just joined the site and noticed your problem with your magnolia. Almost definately Phytophora ramorum. Is there any Ponticum Rhododendron in the vicinity.?? We have it here and we have had to fell and burn large quantities of Ponticum as they are a serious threat to our larch and magnolia if the spores jump accross. Only in the Ponticum at the moment. If the government department suspects its ramorum then it has to come down. You could sample the bark and send for analysis. They served us with a stat notice to remove once they had crawled round the grounds and tagged and sampled.we were going to do a major clearance anyway so it has promted us to move a bit quicker. Hope this helps and hope its not ramorum but its pretty serious stuff. cheers