Doesn't bark qualify as dead tissue?If they are growing on the wood, they are degrading it and fruiting already. This indicates that they are either consuming live wood and killing it, or that they're growing on dead tissue. You can try systemic antibiotics, fungicides if the former is the case. Otherwise, there's not much you can do. Antibiotics don't enter dead wood.
Or eat them if you can identify them. Looks a little like a Lion's Mane.simply
rub them off.
i personally wouldnt worry about a mushroom. i wouldnt spray because of a mushroom. if you feel it adds nothing to the symbiotic relationship of tree and fungi simply
rub them off.
i don’t know this one for sure (it’s not a lions mane, maybe a pholiota) but my general assumption is that of its on a tree, it’s eating the cambium and will eventually kill the tree over time
yowzers, better get the strap!
here’s what a fresh log looks like about three to four years after being inoculated with shiitake spores.
It does. Always worth investigating. Exudates/secretions from fungi can contain lots of lignase, cellulase and other wood degrading enzymes.Doesn't bark qualify as dead tissue?
Very interesting.It does. Always worth investigating. Exudates/secretions from fungi can contain lots of lignase, cellulase and other wood degrading enzymes.
Some fungi attract bark beetles, which do the heavy work for them.
Is that a problem? I don't think it is. But it could be.
I don't know much about mushrooms, other than they are the fruiting bodies of fungi that are growing below the surface. I don't believe I have ever seen these mushrooms before. However, I have several maples in landscape here, and one I am going to have to remove because it has a bad fungal infection. Whole sections of the tree are dead/dying, and each spring another limb buds out green, and then dies, and then sprouts mushrooms.Are these mushrooms harmful for the tree? And if they are, what is the treatment? The tree is acer ginnala
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akihere’s what a fresh log looks like about three to four years after being inoculated with shiitake spores.
That Pentra-bark looks interesting bonsai nut. How does it due with pine moths?I don't know much about mushrooms, other than they are the fruiting bodies of fungi that are growing below the surface. I don't believe I have ever seen these mushrooms before. However, I have several maples in landscape here, and one I am going to have to remove because it has a bad fungal infection. Whole sections of the tree are dead/dying, and each spring another limb buds out green, and then dies, and then sprouts mushrooms.
Good news is that because this is a small tree you can nuke it with systemic fungicide and then spray with a contact fungicide with a bark-penetrating surfactant. I use this:
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If the fungus can't get water that doesn't have fungicide in it, it will eventually die.
I grew shiitaki about 8 years ago. My 40 logs lasted 4 years heavy and a final light year #5. I still have an occasional one pop up. I had too many shrooms because my wife doesn't like them. Gave pounds away. I was planning on doing about a dozen logs this past late winter but I spent so much time taking care of family stuff that I couldn't get to it. Hopefully I will grow some next year. I take powdered Lion's Mane and Cordyceps every day.shiitake is a sap hard wood feeder. Different than a bark feeding mushroom. I grow my shiitakes right next to living oak trees and have yet to see one start on a living tree. I have keep about 50 to 100 logs I replace ever few years that way for 20 years. If the trees had a huge wound I kept wet that might be different but odds are another type would beat them to it.
I suspect Krone is keeping the trunk to wet and there is more dead bark in the crotch of the tree. Or Krone lives in a fairly rain soaked area. If that's the case the water may lead to other problems down the line.
That is defiantly not lions mane which if I remember right is a heart wood / Hard wood stump feeder. Don't eat it.
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