Random inspection finds

[David Humphries]

Thought it may be of interest for some of us to put up some random & interesting inspection issues we come across whilst out & about running the rule over our flocks.

 

To kick off, this from today........

 

What I suspect is lycoperdon pyriforme (the "stump" Puffball)

here on the tension roots of a seemingly healthy & vital, but leaning London Plane.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ive seen these puff balls before david, not so sure they are pyriforme as in this image, maybe this image of yours is the aged appearence

 

 

i also wonder, has this plane had meripilus?

 

interesting post:001_cool:

[David Humphries]

Ive seen these puff balls before david, not so sure they are pyriforme as in this image, maybe this image of yours is the aged appearence

 

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i also wonder, has this plane had meripilus?

 

interesting post:001_cool:

 

I think yours are just younger developing pyri's Tony.

 

here, check out this Roger Phillips link & then have a look at the set in the gallery.

 

Rogers Mushrooms - Lycoperdon pyriforme

 

Lycoperdon pyriforme - the Stump Puffball - David Humphries’s Fungi Directory - Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists

 

 

Not noted Merip fruiting on this particular tree before, though there is merip in the park, but oddly on old planting pits & not on living trees.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

In the first shot in the second post there is a tree with a basal form that is quite distinctive, you got a closer one?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

trees in far left of shot near railings

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

nice shots of the sapro meripilus too

[David Humphries]

trees in far left of shot near railings

 

That Plane does have basal decay, but I have no shot of it in close up, that I'm aware of.

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Also from todays inspections, but here from the other end of the tree spectrum (the canopy of this Ash)

here's a family of ring necked parakeets that have taken over an avian dwelling where it's previous occupants had taken advantage of Inonotus hispidus decay.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

david, thanks for posting the puffballs, made me follow a gut instinct!

 

you have lycoperdum nigrescens.

 

Lycoperdum nigrescens and old fruit bodies of L. pyriforme:thumbup1:

 

 

[David Humphries]

I don't believe you're right on this one old man.

 

L. nigrecsens have spines similar to the common.

 

The ones on the Planes I noted, were warty.

 

 

 

Don't have any of my resources here so not going to get in a debate on it with you.

 

 

Go play some place else

 

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