Red rot
The red rot is a form of the wood rot , which is to be assigned to the white rot in the narrower sense , since primarily the lignin content of the wood is destroyed. It got its misleading name due to an initially reddish discoloration that is associated with damage to the wood.
In addition to wound rot and honey fungus , the root sponge ( Heterobasidion annosum ), especially on spruce, is the most important pathogen of this tree disease for conifers in Europe.
literature
- Herbert Zycha, Ferenc Kató: Investigations into the red rot of the spruce . Series of publications by the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 39). Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1967, 120 pp.
- Herbert Zycha et al .: The root sponge (Fomes annosus) and the red rot of the spruce (Picea abies) . Forest Science Research (Issue 36) / Munich University Writings (Forest Science Faculty). Parey, Hamburg and Berlin 1976, 83 pages, ISBN 3-490-23616-5
- Heinz Butin : Diseases of the forest and park trees. Diagnosis, biology, control. 2 spore boards . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Thieme, Stuttgart and New York 1996, ISBN 3-13-639003-2 , pp. 133 and 137