If you go down to the woods today.........

[RobRainford]

nice little example of both brown rot in oak and also the annual rings showing the ring porous habit of oak, from saturday at whippendell

 

and a microscope image of the rings from 1st year at college too, managed to get an average phone camera shot down the lens

[David Humphries]

Great image Rob, what was the magnification on the scope ?

 

 

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[RobRainford]

Great image Rob, what was the magnification on the scope ?

 

 

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X10 on the lens and then x10 on the eyepiece so x100. There was a x40 on the lens too and I did get images of that but it only got the larger vessels in.

[David Humphries]

Picture shows the Ring-porous anatomy really well

 

Don't know what the mycelial like strands are in the ealy wood larger vessels though ?

 

 

 

 

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[Xerxses]

...it would be lovely to experience this...

 

[David Humphries]

...it would be lovely to experience this...

 

 

Simply stupendous

 

 

 

Like that Tobias

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Picture shows the Ring-porous anatomy really well

 

Don't know what the mycelial like strands are in the ealy wood larger vessels though ?

 

 

 

 

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they would be fragments from the slicing for sample, the blades need a sharpen:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

nice little example of both brown rot in oak and also the annual rings showing the ring porous habit of oak, from saturday at whippendell

 

and a microscope image of the rings from 1st year at college too, managed to get an average phone camera shot down the lens

 

Congrats on this image, this is the route we will all be going down before too long, a wonderful glimpse of the world within wood, get used to seeing images like this, i am fast approaching!

[David Humphries]

Went for a stroll along the Devils Dyke yesterday which is a scheduled ancient monument, a SSSi & candidate SAC

It's a 12 kilometer long, Anglo-Saxon earth work in Cambridgeshire.

Thought to have been constructed by Penda, The Saxon King of the East Angles.

Fascinating landscape.

 

It mostly runs open & clear of canopy through arable farm land, but a couple of stretches are wooded.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

It mostly runs open & clear of canopy through arable farm land, but a couple of stretches are wooded.

 

 

Great variety of natural regeneration & managed woodland.

Fine Oak, Ash & Field Maple pollards, Oak & Beech standards, coppiced Alder, Ash, Field Maple & Hazel.

 

Very dry, as its excavated fairly high & predominantly chalk. Not many ground based fungi. The odd Armilaria clump & occasional sapro like Polyporus & Hypholoma. Didn't see any Amanita or Bolete sp

 

The Oak standards had I. dryadeus, the Oak pollards had Fistulina & the Ash pollards & old coppice had I. hispidus.

 

Will go back again methinks when it gets a bit wetter this autumn & next spring.

 

 

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