Frances Hall

Hiya, I am new here too, although I got some fungi help last week. I have been working with trees for about 6 years, love it, having chosen as a preferred path after growing children allowed. Have 2 more modules to pass on the Tech Cert management day, have done PTI 3 day, and soon to do QTRA as well. Work 2 days a week for a local authority arbs section and the rest of the time for myself, which is fab apart from the book-keeping!

Hi thanks - glad to know there is some solidarity!! Definitely gills not pores!

So the council tree officer diagnosed it as polyporous sqamosus and it is being felled :-( I still don't agree - but it is their tree and they can do what they want with it

A consultant has already recommended it is felled, the TPO officer has agreed to it as well, the lads went to fell it today the next thing I knew I had been called for a second opinion!! The easy option would for me to agree, but I think the tree is worth more than that - you can't see from my picture but the stem diameter is over a metre, I was going to suggest fractometer test (but I can't do that for them), I think a crown reduction is going to be the answer for now though.

Thank you Tony, think I will tell them all I can and suggest they get it tested!!

PS by the way yes I have looked at the fungi directory! Thanks!

Thank you for all the responses!! This is just fab - the instinct in me said polypore to start with, but I am used to seeing ganos and inonotus they seem common where I usually work. The wood sounds dry throughout the side of the fruit bodies, on the opposite side there is a large wound about 1.5 metres high, but it is old and partially calloused over, but around here there are the tell-tale signs of HCBC, only on the opposite side from the fruiting bodies. There are some cracks in the bark, some loose bark on the trunk and on the branches too, but I have seen much worse. Attached is a picture of the tree as it was today, the council called me in because they wanted to fell it but wanted to be sure they were right. I am happy to keep it for a bit longer with a crown reduction. Thanks again, see you soon

Hi all, I have been an onlooker for some years and finally decided to post something today! An old bracket on a horse chestnut, there were several from the base up to about 4 metres, the picture shows the biggest, the others have fallen off. Now, I am thinking, if that's a ganoderma it would be smooth on the bottom, if its inonotus hispidus it should have gone black by now??? Would anyone be able to recognise this? Thank you!! PS - sorry if this is really obvious, but it is on a horse chestnut - usually ganodermas but I am not sure, and I want to diagnose and save this tree for a bit!!