"K" wrote in message
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Phoebe B writes
Can anyone help please. A neighbour has a fungi problem.

This weird fungus was growing on our Ash Tree that was dying. It was very
rubbery and hard, and no-one seemed to know what it was. We were advised
to cut the Ash Tree down, which we did but the Tree Surgeon couldn't take
the stump out as it was too big. We have since built a large concrete base
over it and put up a summer house. Believe it or not, that same weird
fungus has appeared on / in / through our carpet in the summer house !!
What can we do about it ?
The fungus that looks the closest is Inonotus Dryadeus. However, the
picture shows it weeping. The fungus coming up through our summer house
floor (that was around the base of the tree and progressing up the trunk
in places) is smooth and if you push it it is very resilient (I.e. you
cannot scrape or break it off, as it just goes a little brown and bends a
bit). How on earth could it have gone through a layer of concrete, the
wooden floor of the summer house and both the underlay and carpet ?

The fungus that you see is just the fruiting body. The main 'plant' is the
mycelium - a mass of fine hairs. So it is possible for the fine hairs to
creep all over the place, and then throw up a fruiting body when
conditions are right. Alternatively, it could be a completely new growth
carried by spores. Fungus spores are very light, and it's a fair bet to
say that the spores of the commoner fungi are everywhere, and will take
root whenever conditions are right (which is how they got into the dying
ash tree in the first place).
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Kay

Do you have any idea how they can kill it off please?