Armilaria - Central cavity decayer

[Fungus]

These beeches are the dominant species in certain areas, mix of beech and oak in others, the beeches many are truly ancient class for their species, most well over the 300 year life cycle typical of the species. Burnham beeches has such fungal diversity as to make it hard to pin down your scenario, even chanterels.

 

Tony,

Where the veteran beeches are dominant, you should look for the dynamics and succession of the middle and/or late phase ectomycorrhizal symbionts and the parasites of individual beeches to determine the individual - not the collective - condition they're in.

The mix of the tree species specific ecosystems of beech and oak has its own dynamics and successive order with species of Russula, Lactarius, Amanita, Cortinarius, Tricholoma, Hygrophorus, Inocybe, Boletus, Ramaria, Sarcodon, Craterellus cornucopoides and Cantharellus cibarius mainly or exclusively specialising on both tree species.

[Fungus]

hyphae protected by melanine plaques

 

This is what melanine plates or plaques on a laying trunk of a beech look like and the second photo shows the meanwhile exposed white rot caused by the Armillaria mycelium originally covered by the melanine plates.

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[RobArb]

this Sorbus came over in the wind last night, think it had a helping hand though

 

Armillaria (mellea) perhaps?

[RobArb]

Also, is this Armillaria on Laburnum?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

sorbus yes no doubt, probably some daedaleopsis confrogosa higher up too

 

second hypholomas probably fasciculare

[Fungus]

second hypholomas probably fasciculare

 

This is H. sublateritium.

[David Humphries]

This twin stemmed Hornbeam has had one stem removed some time ago, the rhizomorphs would appear to indicate that the presence of Armillaria sp is still active.

 

 

 

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