Tree bracket fungus

A disease of the tree’s heartwood, the shelves are the fruiting bodies and by the time they appear, there is usually a significant amount of interior damage; if the disease attacks the trunk, the tree can fall – losing a favorite tree to tree bracket fungus can be heartbreaking, yet it is important to remember these fungi serve a purpose in the natural world – their consumption of dead and dying wood is part of the cycle of life, and the good news is that these fungi attack the old and the weak and often occur after a tree is human- or nature- damaged

 

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Holzzersetzende Pilze sind im natürlichen Kreislauf und Zersetzungsprozess der Wälder eines der wichtigsten Elemente, sind sie doch in der Lage, selbst härtestes abgestorbenes Eichenholz letztlich vollständig zu zersetzen: damit erfüllen sie die sehr wichtige Aufgabe, im Naturhaushalt der Wälder „aufzuräumen“ und dem Boden organische Masse zuzuführen

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