The Meripilus thread!

[Fungus]

Doesn't explain F h though? Utilizing the last bits of deposited vinegar acids perhaps?

 

Could be a valid explanation, as F. hepatica is a non-agressive parasite investing in getting old with the tree, that is living most years of its presence in an oak on vinegar acids the sapwood secretes to defend the living tissues of annual rings, before it invades the cambium causing bark and cambium necrosis.

[Ben Ballard]

Meripilus fruiting on oak stumps for decades ? Any documentation (pictures) ? And if so, IME oak stumps keep their root systems intact for decades after the felling of the tree producing lots of epicormic growth form activated dormant buds.

In fact, the oldest oaks in The Netherlands are standing in a circle surrounding the original (below ground level) coppice with a still intact root system from which the present trees originate.

 

Hi Gerrit :001_smile:the first two are from a beech felled 10 year ago at the time there was a fair bit of epicormic growth coming from the root system that died of a few years after felling the other pic is one i have posted before that you menctioned that there could be live roots in the ground still,can get more pics of oak stumps i have found fruiting in grazed fields so no epicormic regrowth.would be interesting to dig one up to see if roots have grafted on near by trees or still alive as seem totaly dead above ground.

 

 

Edited December 6, 2011 by Ben Ballard
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[Ben Ballard]

 

 

I am certain this pic is merrip but will go back next year and get a pic when the fruit fresh if see it again:001_smile:

[Fungus]

I am certain this pic is merrip but will go back next year and get a pic when the fruit fresh if see it again

 

Ben,

These brackets look like it's a possibe candidate for Meripilus sumstinei, so if you go back next year also take a sample and have it microscopically identified.

[Ben Ballard]

cheers gerrit. i will get a sample next year

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

this thread is developing very nicely lately, always intended for it to become a valuable resource for references and it is growing nicely.

 

thanks to everyone who continues to input, nice thought on the laeti meripilus possibilities david.

 

now wouldnt it be cool to find Meripilus sumstinei in the UK, proper work.

[Ben Ballard]

:thumbup1:if we have time sat when you reducing the big lime you will have to take a look at that stump

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

:thumbup1:if we have time sat when you reducing the big lime you will have to take a look at that stump

 

I might stay down in a travelodge!

[sloth]

I wonder if this M sumstinei is actually the less aggressive, more saprobic, Merip that J Forbes-laird was researching a little while back? Just a pondering...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I wonder if this M sumstinei is actually the less aggressive, more saprobic, Merip that J Forbes-laird was researching a little while back? Just a pondering...

 

my thoughts exactly:thumbup1: