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[David Humphries]

David,

Looking at the photo and the size of the bracket and its presence at this hight makes me wonder, whether you have considered this to be (the first U.K. finding ? of) Inonotus dryophilus, a species of which is documented, that it never fruits at the trunk base, but always at greater hight on Quercus robur or Q. petrea.

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Last years was the first time this fungi had fruited on this tree in the last 8 years.

 

The local & FRDBI records have it as I.dryadeus

 

Obviously there is a difference in spore colour.

I will try & ascertain.

 

Either way, this is appears to be quite unique

 

D

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

... which - of course- does not mean, that you could not be the first one documenting I. dryadeus fruiting at great hight .

 

I did actualy climb the tree in question and can confirm it was most certainly dryadeus, unless the dryophilus is almost identical macroscopicaly?

[Fungus]

I did actualy climb the tree in question and can confirm it was most certainly dryadeus, unless the dryophilus is almost identical macroscopicaly?

 

Tony,

No, it's not, it looks more like I. rheades, which only grows on trunks of Populus.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

No, it's not, it looks more like I. rheades, which only grows on trunks of Populus.

 

then davids is i. dryadeus, as i would have recognised anything like i. rheades, which is far more like Hispidus than dryadeus.

 

and thanks, now i know where to look for rheades!

[David Humphries]

A few shots of the same bracket from today.

 

Noted someone (or thing) may of had a wee look inside

 

 

 

Also the last three shots are of another dryadeus 'at height' from earlier in the year at another one of our sites.

 

 

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[Fungus]

Also the last three shots are of another dryadeus 'at height' from earlier in the year at another one of our sites.

 

It seems like the occurance at greater heights of I. dryadeus shows some similarities to the also not very often fruiting of Fistulina hepatica at higher spots. See : Inonotus dryadeus.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have waited such a long long time to confirm my beliefs/theories here.

 

The ultra fat wide low profiled roots and spreading base of fraxinus excelsior and its causal fungi, part of fraxinus excelsiors "species specific ecosystem" and this ash has been living with pholiota squarrosa for decades. "the brown things" are the dessicated fruit bodies and very dense clusters they was too, I bet they was a site to see when fresh.

 

I had almost forgotten how much fun this detective work is, its been a while since I found such an important link.

 

check out the helical crack too, bit of i. hispidus at play me suspects (with torsional wind loads)

 

 

 

 

 

[Fungus]

The ultra fat wide low profiled roots and spreading base of fraxinus excelsior and its causal fungi, part of fraxinus excelsiors "species specific ecosystem" and this ash has been living with pholiota squarrosa for decades. "the brown things" are the dessicated fruit bodies and very dense clusters they was too

 

And then again their is a striking difference between tree species like Fraxinus and Fagus being under attack of the biotrophic parasitic Pholiota squarrosa, which can survive and compensate for the attack for many years, and trees such as Robinia, Platanus, Populus and Salix, which can become dangerous because of the decay of buttresses and/or root plates within a much shorter period compared to the first two mentioned, as is shown in my Album : Pholiota squarrosa.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

And then again their is a striking difference between tree species like Fraxinus and Fagus being under attack of the biotrophic parasitic Pholiota squarrosa, which can survive and compensate for the attack for many years, and trees such as Robinia, Platanus, Populus and Salix, which can become dangerous because of the decay of buttresses and/or root plates within a much shorter period compared to the first two mentioned, as is shown in my Album : Pholiota squarrosa.

 

Yes I should have mentioned it is more serious on other trees.

 

poplar especially IME.

 

So what do you make of the perenniporia Gerrit?

[David Humphries]

It seems like the occurance at greater heights of I. dryadeus shows some similarities to the also not very often fruiting of Fistulina hepatica at higher spots.

 

Not a particularly rare event here Gerrit

 

 

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