Fistulina hepatica

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

:bowdown:Oh dear! all hail The Emperor:blushing:

 

i know you wasnt selling the concept, but im buying! no fruits present at time (today) but I know this wood, like the back of my hand and some of these have fruited, one of these is from a previous post in this thread showing three bodies, one brain formed.

 

I looked here for the lack of inonotus dryadeus, and its all coming home to roost now.

 

Gerrit, your the man:001_cool: gave a blind man eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thank you Gerrit, for this helps me understand why i was making the connections in this, the inosculations, the burring preceded by buckles and in later stages becoming necrotic in areas with tar deposits and annual fruiting and so much more. So others can follow my journey in understanding the relationship- see Gerrits info below, with highlighted relevent pieces.

 

"After entering (the base of) the trunk of Quercus robur or Castanea sativa through a wound, the mycelium of Fistulina hepatica grows radially towards the center of the tree until it reaches one of the earlier formed "vinegar" acid rich annual rings and than follows the circle of this annual ring while feeding on "vinegar" acid, the tree produces in defense.

Once the ring is "emptied", Fistulina hepatica directs its mycelium in reverse direction until a new ring is penetrated and so on, until the cambium is reached, where the mycelium becomes parasitic and causes uncontrolled necrotic growth of the bark.

After the central part of the "canker" opens up, Fistulina hepatica (anually) produces fruitbodies and the tree starts "repairing" the damage by building columns of wood with inwards growing bark to stabilize the trunk at either side of the opening.

If you cut through the trunk at this level, you see two inward curving columns of wood together looking like ovaries.

After the repairing process, the tree no longer is unstable, because the trunk has only locally, i.e. in a few annual rings, which are reletively far apart, been damaged.

There is however one rare exception to this rule. If one finds Fistulina hepatica producing fruitbodies from a major root at some distance of the tree, one must be alarmed, as pulling the root in a storm can cause the tree to fall, because the in a vertical direction damaged root can just as easy be torn apart as one can with a telescope.

The top row second photo from the left shows the base of the trunk of the oldest Quercus robur of The Netherlands, which partially has been destroyed by the necrosis caused by Fistulina hepatica without endangering the stability of the tree. Just as all other very old pedunculate oaks in The Netherlands, it has also become completely hollow from the brown rot caused by Laetiporus sulphureus." G.J. (keizer)

 

What I am suggesting is that the growth inward is also projected outward when the canker is too small to form a recess, the buckling and occluding becomes an inosculation strengthening the outer wall that is thinning due to the internal decay the burring due to fibre buckling (shell buckle) becoming burred, and inosculations and burring combine to form a thick wall of complex grain which has the effect of slowing the progress of further decays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fungus]

the inosculations, the burring preceded by buckles and in later stages becoming necrotic in areas with tar deposits and annual fruiting and so much more. So others can follow my journey in understanding the relationship with highlighted relevent pieces.

What I am suggesting is that the growth inward is also projected outward when the canker is too small to form a recess, the buckling and occluding becomes an inosculation strengthening the outer wall that is thinning due to the internal decay the burring due to fibre buckling (shell buckle) becoming burred, and inosculations and burring combine to form a thick wall of complex grain which has the effect of slowing the progress of further decays.

 

Tony,

Great pictures , very well documented to support your hypothesis on the interaction of F. hepatica and Q. robur. All the more reason to come to the U.K. to have a look at your veteran oaks with F. hepatica, I. dryadeus and C. fusipes myself.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

Great pictures , very well documented to support your hypothesis on the interaction of F. hepatica and Q. robur. All the more reason to come to the U.K. to have a look at your veteran oaks with F. hepatica, I. dryadeus and C. fusipes myself.

 

I am really looking forward to showing you around the fantastic sites we have here in the U.k. and getting your take on things.

 

There is really nowhere in europe to compete with the U.K for old growth:001_cool:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

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[RobArb]

nice video:thumbup:

 

a picture (or video in this case) tells a thousand words!

 

 

Can't wait to go to Whip this year:biggrin:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

nice video:thumbup:

 

a picture (or video in this case) tells a thousand words!

 

 

Can't wait to go to Whip this year:biggrin:

 

Im glad you enjoyed this video, theres a few other vids around my threads today, let me know what you think.

 

Im pretty pleased with the way they have come out, and despite a little nerves in the first one I did, im really getting into doing these.

 

Im going to make some great ones now this has inspired me, really enjoyed them, making them.

[RobArb]

i can tell you enjoyed it ha:thumbup:

 

little constructive criticism though (nothing bad), you are very softly spoken in the videos and i had to turn the sound right up to hear (that or i'm deaf:lol:)

 

can you get the mic closer?

 

Other than that the videos are top notch, the enthusiasm shows and the message is clear and succinct, keep em coming:biggrin:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

i can tell you enjoyed it ha:thumbup:

 

little constructive criticism though (nothing bad), you are very softly spoken in the videos and i had to turn the sound right up to hear (that or i'm deaf:lol:)

 

can you get the mic closer?

 

Other than that the videos are top notch, the enthusiasm shows and the message is clear and succinct, keep em coming:biggrin:

 

I know what your saying but its a compact camera and need the distance for frame. will look to a propper camera, cos I loved doing these!