Perenniporia fraxinea

[AxeKnot]

<u>Perenniporia fraxinea</u>

Type of rot - White rot(attacks lignin) in heartwood culminating in cavity formation

Location on tree - Stem base

Arboricultural significance - Failure, brittle fracture

Hosts - Ash, Poplar, Beech

Anyone have any experience of this fungi?

 

[AxeKnot]

Perenniporia fraxinea.

This fungi caused the rot in an Ash tree that fell and killed three people in Birmingham,U.K. in 2001!

Does anyone have anymore information about this incident?

ASH TREE KILLS THREE PEOPLE

Scroll down and read all the article, Notice in the visible disease section - 'fungal brackets' and severe 'white rot'