We were recently called by one of the schools we have worked with in the past as they had a branch fail due to the presence of Massaria.

Massaria is a disease of London plane trees, which causes large lesions on the upper surfaces of major branches, branch dieback, and can cause branches to break off the tree and fall.

As the early stages of Massaria are only visible on the upper side of the branches, we arranged for a team, at short notice, to climb all of the London plane trees on site to record their findings and remove any infected branches. As you can see from the attached images, there were several large limbs with early signs of the infection, as well as some smaller branches with more severe lesions.

Not only do they no longer have any Massaria infected branches on site, but they have an annual programme in place to aerially inspect this tree group along with a management plan that will dramatically reduce the risk of future branch failure due to the presence of Massaria.

Not only do we carry out pruning, felling, planting and stump grinding but we also take care of aerial tree inspections, massaria inspections and health & safety tree surveys and reports.

Get in touch today for all of your tree related needs.