Decay images

[David Humphries]

again, more Laeti & associated decay on Oak.

 

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[Fungus]

L. sulphureus can also be very invasive in Castanea sativa.

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[David Humphries]

L. sulphureus can also be very invasive in Castanea sativa.

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Certainly a well known association here also Gerrit, but I tend to find Fistulina fruiting on Castanea sativa far more often than Laetiporus.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Certainly a well known association here also Gerrit, but I tend to find Fistulina fruiting on Castanea sativa far more often than Laetiporus.

 

About 50 50 occurrences on sativa in my experience.

 

Never really see much on the sweet chestnuts

[Fungus]

I tend to find Fistulina fruiting on Castanea sativa far more often than Laetiporus.

 

In The Netherlands it is the other way around, predominantly L. sulphureus and according to my documentation, only three times F. hepatica on Castanea.

[Tom D]

I wonder if it is weather related, I have never seen fistulina here in Scotland, on oak or chestnut. I have seen plenty laetiporus though.

 

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[David Humphries]

I wonder if it is weather related, I have never seen fistulina here in Scotland, on oak or chestnut. I have seen plenty laetiporus though.

 

 

Mmmmm, me neither off the top of my head.

 

Will have a look at the frdbi records.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Mmmmm, me neither off the top of my head.

 

Will have a look at the frdbi records.

 

 

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an interesting little investigation!

 

I think time will come where fungi will not be broadly generalised and in fact treated as part of a "natural neighbourhood" ecology. We are constantly reminded of the constantly inconsistent strategies and ecologies of fungi.

 

with fungi the golden rule is going to be expect the unexpected!

 

not an easy subject to quantify or to qualitative asses!

 

And this just re iterates what we already have deduced, that fungi, their ecology, their implications and strategies are a subject arboriculture MUST embrace fully and train specifically for. That mycology- arb-mycota is a specialist division in its own right and an area so wide open to study, an area of mycology where we are the pioneers.

 

Its all brand new, unkown and un evaluated, thats my kind of subject, and why I am a fungi fiend.

 

the grandest scientific puzzle:thumbup:

[Fungus]

I think time will come where fungi will not be broadly generalised and in fact treated as part of a "natural neighbourhood" ecology. We are constantly reminded of the constantly inconsistent strategies and ecologies of fungi.

And this just re iterates what we already have deduced, that fungi, their ecology, their implications and strategies are a subject arboriculture MUST embrace fully and train specifically for. That mycology- arb-mycota is a specialist division in its own right and an area so wide open to study, an area of mycology where we are the pioneers. Its all brand new, unkown and un evaluated

 

Tony,

You've summarized the essence of the "holistic" method of Mycological Tree Assessment - including VTA - and of the in MTA integrated concept of the Tree Species Specific Ecosystem, including the role more or less tree species specific macrofungi and the local soil food web play, in concluding, that the same TSSE can differ depending on the soil, ecological (association with other tree species) and climatic or abiotic and biotic conditions of a specific habitat it is part of.

[Fungus]

Some documentation on a pedunculate oak extremely brown rotted by L. sulphureus, of which the upper part of the trunk and the crown were blown off landing several metres away from the remaining trunk during a last years autumn storm. Luckely it fell to the side of a (in a storm) not much used cycle track and not on the very busy road to the left in the first photo.

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