V.T.A symptoms "the chatty trees"

[RobArb]

todays "chatty" trees

 

1-2 Fraxinus excelsior/ornus graft

3-7 a rather poorly looking beech due to be removed at some point with a transverse crack and some unknown fung (to me, but i will find the name:lol:)

8-11 Quercus that has survived a ring-barking? attempt in its past

12-13 Robinia with a shear crack

[Fungus]

poorly looking beech due to be removed at some point with a transverse crack and some unknown fung (to me, but i will find the name:lol:)

 

Rob,

Trametes versicolor ?

[RobArb]

yes Gerrit i think so, its the black stuff at the bottom near the elder shoot/epiphyte that i haven't got a clue about

[Fungus]

its the black stuff at the bottom near the elder shoot/epiphyte that i haven't got a clue about

 

Rob,

I would need a much closer look at the black layer to assess whether it is fungal or something else. It doesn't seem to be K. deusta, which has a smoother surface, but if it has a stroma with ostioles and perithecia, it could be another Sphaeriales such as a crust-like Hypoxylon or Diatrype species.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

One of the things that keeps me going to the old growth is knowing that for every 10 trips i make to new pastures 1 of those trips will turn up something truly amazing. I seek the finest examples of expression, of decay of fungi because these things are so amazing and need to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. So few of us get to bare witness to the power of nature, and I feel it is one of the greatest responsibilities to document and share such things less we forget how truly wonderful and fascinating the natural world is.

 

I have nothing to say other than for scale imagine this rock is taller than me (6ft)

 

Actualy I will say! i believe that this glove is being formed as a cushion to spread the load (compressive) against the rock, but in time the rock will be enveloped and act as a tension support for the tree which is unable at present to form a tension root to take the strain of its leaning form. So its lean has forced it to compress "the wall boxer" C. Matheck and form this glove, but eventualy the tree and the rock will be as one (when the inosculation (the kiss) goes past the ridge at the rocks high point when it will become a tension boulder, yes i was giddy and how friggin cool is that!

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

Nuts

 

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

I think this is a suitable place to put these pics. Taken this afternoon in a local FC woodland. It was thinned by 50% last winter. Lots of squirrel damaged stuff taken out.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thats a beauty

[RobArb]

nice little hug to keep itself warm:biggrin:

[Matthew Arnold]

There are loads of them in the wood. All of varying sizes. When i am in there next i shall get a pic of one with massive elephant ears.