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Growth on my 100 year old apple tree. Is it safe?

Sean 80Sean 80 Posts: 1
in Problem solving
I have this beautiful looking growth on my apple tree. Underneath it’s oozing some sticky sap. It looks amazing so I am reluctant to remove it unless it is harmful. The apple tree is over a 100 years old.
can any one advise?

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  • mikky.mikky. Posts: 8
    We have loads of these fungi on our silver birch trees in our woods.
    I collect them and have loads in the wood shed drying out, excellent kindling for the winter, plus the dead 'birch as well.  
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It's worth getting a proper ID on this I think. Some brackets only feed on dead wood so cause trees to become hollow but don't kill the living tissue (the heart wood of trees is technically dead wood) and some bracket fungae parasite living wood and kill the tree. Yours may be fairly harmless and like pansyface said it could be just a sign that the tree is on the way out anyway. If it's something more harmful though you might be able to stop it spreading to other trees even if you can't save yours.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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