the body language of Decay, The Delights of D

[rootstoshoots]

that would be awesome, there is only going to be two of us, and yes super bad ass sites are the best! I will keep you posted on when, wow it would be great to meet you guys in person! super nice of you to even offer, I think that is great and I would love to meet and see some of the stuff in real life, the pictures are superb, I can only imagine what it really looks like! i love Englands old history and the trees are just something you would never see in the states! thanks Hama for the offer!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

that would be awesome, there is only going to be two of us, and yes super bad ass sites are the best! I will keep you posted on when, wow it would be great to meet you guys in person! super nice of you to even offer, I think that is great and I would love to meet and see some of the stuff in real life, the pictures are superb, I can only imagine what it really looks like! i love Englands old history and the trees are just something you would never see in the states! thanks Hama for the offer!

 

It will be my pleasure, I am certain if the timing is right david may well offer a tour of his site Hampstead too:thumbup1:

 

keep me posted, I will if timing is right take the time off and ensure your trip is the stuff of legend:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The body language of beech with long term repetitive colonisations of Armillaria sp.

 

Not quite the pathogen it is billed to be, if it truly was as pathogenic as it is billed to be these examples would be long since dead. I have noticed a great deal of activity this last few months from armillarias, it isnt their pathogenicity, its drought that is letting them in.

 

we will see the loss of a great many trees this year.

 

 

 

[Fungus]

The body language of beech with long term repetitive colonisations of Armillaria sp. Not quite the pathogen it is billed to be, if it truly was as pathogenic as it is billed to be these examples would be long since dead.

 

Although I have documented many examples of the opposite, this may often be true for beech and some other tree species, but there are many other tree species, which are killed by rhizomorphs blocking the nutrients and water transport to such an extreme, that the tree dies within a few years.

I've seen lanes of close standing poplars die within ten years after the first tree was infected with rhizomorphs - which can grow up to one metre a year in a straight line from tree to tree - through root-root contact.

And also remember, that "das grosse Waldsterben" (the massive dying of forest) with mono-cultures of spruce in Germany (Bavaria) and the Czech republic was caused by Armillaria ostoyae as the primary pathogen.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Although I have documented many examples of the opposite, this may often be true for beech and some other tree species, but there are many other tree species, which are killed by rhizomorphs blocking the nutrients and water transport to such an extreme, that the tree dies within a few years.

I've seen lanes of close standing poplars die within ten years after the first tree was infected with rhizomorphs - which can grow up to one metre a year in a straight line from tree to tree - through root-root contact.

And also remember, that "das grosse Waldsterben" (the massive dying of forest) with mono-cultures of spruce in Germany (Bavaria) and the Czech republic was caused by Armillaria ostoyae as the primary pathogen.

 

Gerrit, would you not also say that in the German case that massive industrial pollution played its part in the stress factor, combined with the lack of biodiversity made this situation as dramatic as it was?

[Fungus]

would you not also say that in the German case that massive industrial pollution played its part in the stress factor, combined with the lack of biodiversity made this situation as dramatic as it was?

 

Tony,

Sure it, i.e. the acidification caused by the brown coal heated industries in Germany, Poland and the Czech republic did, but only to trigger A. ostoyae as the primairy pathogen killing all the trees within a decade, a situation we could soon be facing with other tree species all over Europe because of the present nitrification.

[Matthew Arnold]

How many walls has this fungi pushed through whilst it was up in the tree? It was in a heavily Squirrel damaged sycamore about 12 ft down from a wound.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

a longtitudinal slice would be good alongside. that looks pretty well compartmentalised.

[Matthew Arnold]

a longtitudinal slice would be good alongside. that looks pretty well compartmentalised.

 

Would a chunk of it split suffice? As only 6 inches think and can cut a disc with a bowsaw

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

try it and we will see!