Keizer's Fungi Q & A.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You're giving me a fright to come to England in the maybe very near future !!!

 

dont take any notice gerrit, he is far too diplomatic and PC to be like that.

 

besides I will lock him away so I can keep you all to myself instead!

 

On a serious note though, I think I can speak for both David and myself when I say we will gladly assit in anything you would ask of us while your here, from pints up the pub to giuded tours of prime locations, we are your humble servants oh great lord of the underworld!

[Fungus]

1. so what caused my tree to split out? was it the gano or the union or the age or all of the above?

2. and are there all sorts of gano now feeding on the carcass? or is it just one species?

 

Rob,

1. The instable structure of what we Dutch call the "plakoksel" (= badly "glued" or joined together "armpit" or union) did the trick, maybe along with rhizomorphs of Armillaria or the mycelium of Bjerkandera adusta or Pholiota aurivella entering from above and decomposing heartwood downwards, which I have sometimes found together with secondary roots of the beech growing out in the moist rotting wood at the bottom of the split (see the photo of the upside down part of the split with the roots on top) opening the gap even wider.

2. I'm 95 % sure this is only one species, i.e. Ganoderma lipsiense on beech.

[Fungus]

The instable structure of what we Dutch call the "plakoksel" (= badly "glued" or joined together "armpit" or union) did the trick, maybe along with rhizomorphs of Armillaria or the mycelium of Bjerkandera adusta or Pholiota aurivella entering from above and decomposing heartwood downwards, which I have sometimes found together with secondary roots of the beech growing out in the moist rotting wood at the bottom of the split opening the gap even wider.

 

Examples of how beeches with bi- or trifurcated trunks can compensate for the instability of the "plakoksels" can be found in one of my long term research locations, a 100-150 years old beech forest in the centre of The Netherlands.

Here, some beeches have activated their sleeping branch buds from opposite sides of two trunks growing towards another until contact is made and the branches fuse forming a stabilizing branch bridge of up to a metre in length.

[RobArb]

interesting stuff:thumbup:

 

love beeches when they do that, i know certain people who thinks its not right for some reason:confused1:

[RobArb]

next question:blush:

 

whats going on here (we took this padus down as a result)

 

it was also infested with what i think was the ermine moth (a different tree to the one in the cemetary in the vugs and biodiversity thread.

[RobArb]

and another:blushing:

 

this poplar (think its a black hybrid) but as its in salford (manchester) not sure if its a true polus nigra. is due for removal along with quite a few others that are showing the same "body language" as this one but with no FB's

 

these FB's are now desicated/dessicating

 

i have also looked on the fugin directory too david but alas to know avail i keep finding it difficult to identify things unless i trawl through each one singularly:001_huh:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

if they are poplar pholiotas they are protected i think, though they look like wierdly dried pleurotus sp ah ha, its it dryinus?

[RobArb]

interesting i'll go do some digging

 

what about the bird cherry?

[RobArb]

don't think its the dryinus?

Rogers Mushrooms - Pleurotus dryinus Mushroom

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

interesting i'll go do some digging

 

what about the bird cherry?

 

from the photo the look like stereum hirsutums BUT they also have certain features similar to trip, so im holding back, more inclined to stereums, but they are so densley clustered, maybe even chondrostereums as these can be very densley clustered

 

I dont know from those photos basicaly bu those three are the options.