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150 year old beech tree
On 8 Oct, 04:44, beccabunga
wrote: hazchem;818345 Wrote: On 6 Oct, 15:17, Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:- The message from hazchem contains these words: - A 150 year oldbeechtree is due to be cut down soon. It looks healthy but it has fungus sprouting from its base. The owner of thetree contacted thecounciland someone came round and said that it had to be cut down. They said the roots would rot away and then it would fall over. Does this make sense to you?- On the balance of probabilities, no. - I have heard that fungus will hollow out the inside of atreeand that actually makes it stronger. It makes it more flexible so that it can withstand storms better, and that it will live for many more years.- Some old trees have been hollow for centuries. - It doesn't look like honey fungus. It occurred to me that maybe the councilofficial wanted to be on the safe side. They might not want to say it could be OK because then if something happened and it did fall on someone or a car then they might be considered to be to blame.- Well, if you have a website, and the fruit-bodies are still there, could you get a pic and post it? If no-one here can identify it, alt.nature.mushrooms would be a good place to ask. There are some serious mycologists in the group. - I have put some pictures on my website http://tinyurl.com/3o45yw can anyone identify it? This would seem to be the culprit: A much largerbeechfungus is the GIANT POLYPORE (P. giganteus), the largest of our Bracket Fungi, which attacks the roots and base of the trunks, demoralizing the foundations, so that a hugebeechthat appears to have the solidity of a lighthouse, is snapped across in the first severe gale. The external manifestation of the fungus is made in autumn, when about twenty handsome, overlapping, fleshy fans, a foot across, and of a pale brown tint, with darker zones, make their appearance at the base of the trunk. The pallid underside of the flaps becomes dark at once when bruised. Its esculent qualities are appreciated on the Continent. -- beccabunga- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I don't know if you managed to see the pictures I put onto the website, if not I have tried to put them on a different site he- http://www.geocities.com/gdvbqz/beech/beech.html From what you said the council could be right about it being likely to fall over. Hazchem |
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