{"id":613787435334,"date":"2025-10-16T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/uncategorized\/ash-tree-dieback-disease-pictures-and-spore-release-video\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:40:57","slug":"ash-tree-dieback-disease-pictures-and-spore-release-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/trees\/ash-tree-dieback-disease-pictures-and-spore-release-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Tree Dieback Disease Hits Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"

It Doesn’t Seem Real Until it Happens to You<\/h2>\n

Yes, folks, it finally happened to us. We had a good run, but the dieback got us, right in the Bridgwater Road<\/a>, which will be closed for five days this October to take down infected Ash trees.<\/p>\n

Ash saplings infected by the Chalara fraxinea fungus were found at Buckingham Nurseries at the beginning of 2012.<\/p>\n

Here is the first known selfie of the Ash dieback fungus<\/strong> formerly known as Chalara fraxinea or Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus: Hymenoscyphus fraxineus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Back in 2012, the concern was that this plague, which creeps inexorably through air, soil, and aboard insects, would pierce our beloved Common Ash in leaf and stem, leaving no survivors.<\/p>\n

Of all the trees, that grew so fair\u2026<\/p>\n