What is this in my oak?

[shortys7777]

I split some oak that has been dead for a long time. It was cut from the base and got caught leaning prior to me moving in and I finally got around to you breaking it free and dropping it. A section that I split looks like this .

 

[begreen]

Looks like a fungus moving into insect bore holes.

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

That looks like the fungus that killed most of our oaks. Lost 3 trees within the last 4 years.

 

[shortys7777]

Does it freeze in the winter or does it attack live trees only? I have it stacked 5ft from my house along a fence. There are a few other dead ones out in the woods behind my house assuming they will have the same stuff. I'll get those sometime this year.

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

I had an arborist come over a few years ago in an attempt to save our trees. He told me the fungus attacks live trees only. This specific fungus in our trees has been active in Eastern PA, Southern NY and the entire state of NJ for quite some time now. He also told me there is nothing we can do to stop it, so we had 3 giant 80+ year old red oaks taken down. Your fungus might be different.

 

[Tar12]

Got a bunch like that and have been burning it..

 

[weatherguy]

A lot of my oak gets that fungus, nothing to worry about, burns good.

 

[shortys7777]

Thanks for the reassurance. I'm burning some now as my wood stash is getting low.

 

[billb3]

I've found a big patch of white fungus in a wound/crack and it smelled rather bad.

 

[weatherguy]

I've found a big patch of white fungus in a wound/crack and it smelled rather bad.

Its fungus, it's supposed to smell bad.

 

[billb3]

Its fungus, it's supposed to smell bad.

Bread and mushrooms do alright.