Hi! This is Blaire Glenn from Saratoga Tree Service. I am a certified Arborist.
I am looking at a Modesto Ash near the corner of McBain and Midway in Campbell.
The home owner indicated that they believe the tree was dead. I am looking at the tree for evidence that may lead to decline or branch dieback and the first observation was that there is a large number of fruiting bodies from mushrooms growing near the base of the tree.
The upper canopy look pretty good and there was quite a bit of evidence of bud development. So, there are indicators that the tree is not dead by any means, but there were a lot of dead branches.
I was concerned that because I identified so many mushrooms in the area that there might be something like Armillaria Root Rot that could be causing parts of the tree to die back. And if so, if it’s the case, then there may become a structure weakness associate with this tree.
This is a photo of one of the mushrooms or group of mushrooms that I saw in the area and if you look closely at this image, you can see a numerous mushrooms sprouting in the leafy area as well as a different type of mushroom in the lawn area. And I cannot identify this, but this is what the Armillaria Mushroom fruiting body looks like, and if I was to guess, that is what I would say it is.
Up in the main crock to this tree, there is a plant life growing in a split and what that indicates is that there is enough of the decay pocket with decay in there to support root’s system.
I pulled it out just to see how deep it was, and there was at least six inches of rooting area on one of these plants.
The main reason I am pointing this out to you is this is a real good clue, when you find a tight crotch in these trees especially this Modesto Ash that has vegetation growing in it that is different than the Ash vegetation, it takes at tree in to die to recognize it, but once you do see it, then it is a good clue as to the possibility of a deeper much more dangerous situation with the possible decay infested crotch.
And these particular crotches are the limb that was associated with it is fairly large and fairly heavy and it would fall towards the home owner’s property in to their house.
So once again, my name id Blair Glenn and these are more of the concerns on this Modesto Ash. This tree is not dead, however, I want to do is to be aware of some of the other potential problems. Thank you
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