On Mar 8, 5:57*pm, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
It will carry the water from one site to
another, in order to infect timber which wouldn't otherwise be
susceptable, hence its ability to infect dry timber, unlike wet
rot.

It can conduct water, but dry rot has no ability to wet up dry timber.
Dry rot cannot attack dry timber. The same as every other brown rot.

It was not named 'dry rot' because it attacks dry timber.

You won't be able to get any fungicide nowadays which will protect
against anything, and there never was one which was particularly
effective against dry rot (it's one of the most resistant fungi).

Do you want to back that up at all? Because it dies when surface
sprayed with boron, propaconazole, Jeyes fluid....It was never
particularly tollerant of CCA pre-treatments either. Trametes
versicolor, perhaps, but not Serpula lacrymans.


Matt
-I particularly liked the comment further up about it growing readily
outdoors- so readily that a expedition had to be mounted to the
Himalyas to find it! There are still only about five recorded
instances of outdoor growth in the world.