Friday, 5 July, 2019 - 13:39
Ash dieback, a fungus which affects ash trees, is beginning to weaken and kill trees in the Dean village and Dean valley. It is caused by a fungus, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus also known as Chalara ,which blocks the water transport systems in trees causing leaf loss, lesions in the wood and on the bark and ultimately the dieback of the crown of the tree. This disease, first described in Poland in 1992, was first identified in Britain in 2012 in nursery stock and then in the wider environment in 2013 although it could possibly have been around in the country much...
