Fungi, stripped down naked !

[David Humphries]

Driving past this Birch festuned with Razor strop & Honey fungus (Piptoporus betulinus & Armilaria) today, saw the failure history of similar ones next to it & thought I'd beter get it down.

 

We had abit of a wager to see where it would snap under load.

 

I won

 

Thought it would be interesting to put together a few shots of how this fung erupts through from the cortex and out of the bark.

 

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[Rik]

high quality and very interesting shots as always monkey! i find it amazin how much ive learnt by looking at them in the past!

 

just wondering how you loaded it? did u get a rope or summat round the top as i canny quite tell by the pics

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Nice little piece David, cameras still O.K then?

 

Wish my boss gave me the time to mess about like this!

[David Humphries]

high quality and very interesting shots as always monkey! i find it amazin how much ive learnt by looking at them in the past!

 

just wondering how you loaded it? did u get a rope or summat round the top as i canny quite tell by the pics

 

Thanks Rik, throw line up into the canopy swapped round to a pull line and tug o clock, knew it would break fairly easily.

 

 

Nice little piece David, cameras still O.K then?

 

Wish my boss gave me the time to mess about like this!

 

Cameras just about holding up Tony, just got a letter through last night that informed me that I'm the recipient of a long service award of £500, new camera coming soon, methinks.

 

Oh yeah, only one way to mess about Tony, become the boss

 

 

Close up for you Rik

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

become the boss!

 

Im working on it! done it once before, its balance though life/work

[Rik]

ahhh got ya.. nice one cheers.. didnt realise she would go that easily! (evidently so)

[David Humphries]

'Stripped down' another tree with suspected decay today.

 

Surveyed these three Tilia's last autumn and realised something was affecting their vascular function.

Had my suspicions, but left them to see what would be the outcome this spring.

 

They sit in fairly waterlogged soil.

 

After felling, it was very noticable that all three had a fermenting aroma.

But no bleeding/eruptions from the bark.

 

Peeled back the bark, lo & behold the mycelium of Honey fungus - Armilaria sp. (A. melia is my guess)

 

Interesting that the Tilias behind them (slightly elavated) are showing no signs of dysfunction.

 

 

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[Fungus]

Surveyed these three Tilia's last autumn and realised something was affecting their vascular function. Peeled back the bark, lo & behold the mycelium of Honey fungus - Armilaria sp. (A. mellea is my guess).

 

David,

If you want to be sure - which might in some cases be necessary as evidence of the rightly felling of the tree - you're dealing with the mycelium of a (necrotrophic) parasitic Armillaria spp. without the presence of rhizomorphs or melanine plaques, you need to deposit a piece of the colonized trunk, f.i. the piece on photo 4, in a shady place outside and keep it moist until the mycelium fruits. In this case, it could just as well be the mycelium of another (necrotrofic) parasitic Agaricales, such as Gymnopilus junonius or Pholiota squarrosa, you're dealing with.

[David Humphries]

David,

If you want to be sure - which might in some cases be necessary as evidence of the rightly felling of the tree - you're dealing with the mycelium of a (necrotrophic) parasitic Armillaria spp. without the presence of rhizomorphs or melanine plaques, you need to deposit a piece of the colonized trunk, f.i. the piece on photo 4, in a shady place outside and keep it moist until the mycelium fruits. In this case, it could just as well be the mycelium of another (necrotrofic) parasitic Agaricales, such as Gymnopilus junonius or Pholiota squarrosa, you're dealing with.

 

 

 

Interesting

 

We'll just have to have a go at your suggested experiment.

 

my uninformed money is on Armilaria.

 

 

 

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