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By Casso

Kent, United Kingdom Gb

I put a question on some time ago when my husband chopped down my magnolia tree. I was hoping it would produce new shoots but it hasn't. Instead it seems to have mushrooms growing on the trunk.



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Sorry about the tree, but that is a fabulous display of fungi!

26 Feb, 2012

 

Tree bracts and very pretty. Your magnolia is extremely unlikely to regrow

26 Feb, 2012

 

yes it does look like its had it now. the fungi are spectacular.

26 Feb, 2012

 

Hi Casso...
That's sad about your tree, but very amazing fungus !

Looks like Turkey tail fungus, Trametes versicolor.

26 Feb, 2012

 

Little ra-ra skirts! Remember them?

26 Feb, 2012

 

Thank you for all your comments. What do I have to do about the fungus to get rid of it please?

27 Feb, 2012

 

The stump is dead and will not regrow - fungi grows on dead, rotting wood. You can try and dig it out or at least cut it as close to the ground as you can then use a stump removing 'paint'.

27 Feb, 2012

 

I'd just leave the stump alone to rot down naturally if you can, good source of food for various beasties.

27 Feb, 2012

 

What to do with the fungus? Make it into soup for the dear man who cut the tree down. I think its really rather nice and I would just enjoy it. Deadf tree trunks make good supports for climbers like clematis too.

27 Feb, 2012

 

When we had to have a weeping silver birch cut down (too near the house) we intentionally had a 1 metre stump left and grew Clematis alpina over it, took a while to clamber over but it looks wonderful each year now.

28 Feb, 2012

 

Thank you all. I googled Turkey Tail fungus and found it is used in China as a treatment for cancer.

28 Feb, 2012

 

Lots of odd plants and animals parts are used as medical treatments in China - as to whether they are safe or not that is a different matter!

28 Feb, 2012

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