A presentation to show some of the various diseases found here on the trees within the UK.

1. Latin name: Ganaderma adspersum
Common Name: Artists Fungus
Where : Below 2 metres
Who: Hardwoods, softwoods, living and dead
How: White rot at first in some cases then also
developing into heart rot (Selective
Delignification)

2. Latin name: Phaeolus schweinitzii
where: Root and then butt rot.
who : Conifers usually predisposed by armallaria spp.
How: Decay fungus that rots the roots enters through
wounds causing a cubicle brown rot smelling of
turpentine.

3. Latin name: Piptoporus betulinus
Common Name: Birch polypore
where: Main stem and larger scaffold branches.
Who: All birch trees (Betulus spp.)
How: Cubicle brown rot.

4. Latin name: Erwinia amylovora
Where: Canopy Primarily enters through blossom during
pollination
Who: Fruit trees prunus
How: Bacterial infection

5. Latin name: Rhytisma acerinum
Where: leaves
Who: Acer spp.
How: Fungus which overwinters in the leaves

6. Latin name: Cryptococcus fagisuga
Common Name: Felted Beech Scale (Coccus)
Where: On the trunk (mainly on the bark)
Who: Fagus sylvatica (but Variants can be
resistant)
How: Malformation/pitting of bark (Larvae)- the
first stage of Beech bark disease.

7. Latin name: Inonotus hispidus
where: Upper Stem and trunk
who: Broad leafs , Ash, Plane
how: Simultaneous white rot resulting in a
brittle fracture.

8. Latin Name: Nectria cinnabarina
Common Name: Coral spot
Where: Usually found on dead wood
Who: Will migrate to living tissue via pruning
snags and frost damaged twigs.
How: In living block the xylem vessels,
preventing the flow of water and causing
wilting.

9. Latin Name: Verticilium wilt
Where: Vascular tissues
Who: Mainly on Broadleaves
How: Soil borne fungi spores spread systemically
within the structure of the tree/plant .

10. Latin Name: Dohistroma septosporum
Common name: Red Band Needle Blight
Where: Foliage (pine needles).
Who: Conifers, Pinus spp.
How: Fungal infection (tar spots)
spread through spores.

11. Latin Name: Ustulina deusta / Kretzschmaria deusta
Where: Below 1.5m on the butt in the buttresses.
Who: Mostly on Beech and Lime
How: Degrades cells across the stem causing a brittle
China fracture.

12. Latin Name: Meripilus giganteus
Common Name: Giant Polypore
Where: Roots and butt
Who: Broad leaved trees, (very common on Mature
Beech)
How: White rot on roots (causes root plate failure)

13. Latin Name: Taphrina deformans
Common Name: Peach Leaf Curl
Where: Foliage and canopy
Who: Prunus Dulcis (Almond) and peach tree
How: A fungal pathogen that deforms the leaf
and causes crop loss.

14. Latin Name: Ophiostoma novo ulmi
Common Name: Dutch Elm Disease
Where: Vascular tissues bark and foliage.
Who: Ulmus spp. (resistant Ulmus hybrids available).
How: Fungal spores spread through root grafts
and the Elm bark beetle.