Hamadryads diary- a new chapter

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

First up bjerkandera fumosa, the much larger doppelgänger for B. adusta, alongside it on the same stump, is a bracket that i thought was pluerotus dryinus but flipped it over to find it pored! cool. lots of fungi in this nursery bed, some i have a an idea on being odd Clitocybe nebularis with a white upturned edge but not 100%. last two images another stump showing just how large the bjerkandera fumosa is, the forming fruitbodies/brackets here are the size of golf balls!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fungus]

1. on the same stump, is a bracket that i thought was Pleurotus dryinus but flipped it over to find it pored!

2. lots of fungi in this nursery bed, some i have a an idea on being odd Clitocybe nebularis with a white upturned edge

 

1. There's a puzzle, looks like nothing I'm familiar with, so you should have a specialist have a go at it !

 

And he/she should also have a look at 2 and 3, because :

2. this could be a Hohenbuehelia species, like H. repanda and

3. this might be Hohenbuehelia grisea or Pleurocybella porrigens.

 

4. = Leucoagaricus holoceus

5. Clitocybe nebularis could be right.

[sloth]

Go Hama good find!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

1. There's a puzzle, looks like nothing I'm familiar with, so you should have a specialist have a go at it !

 

And he/she should also have a look at 2 and 3, because :

2. this could be a Hohenbuehelia species, like H. repanda and

3. this might be Hohenbuehelia grisea or Pleurocybella porrigens.

 

4. = Leucoagaricus holoceus

5. Clitocybe nebularis could be right.

 

there was very odd things popping up in this mulched nursery bed!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So another day and another bunch of finds, some old ground re covered as I think that it is essential to continuously re visit trees over many years and document as well as possible the progress/process of these things.

 

We have a new apprentice, Tom, he is only 18 and green as they come but whenever we get time in the day i take him on my rounds to see fine veterans and re inspect trees that i know very well. I can only imagine the arb a lad might become given such an intense and early introduction into matters of this nature. I wish i had someone to show me such things when i was a young man. I like to think where arboriculture will be when these young men are at the same stage in their careers as I am now.

 

if we can give the young genberation all that we have learned in the past 100 years early in thier lives think what changes could be made. food for thought isnt it?

 

anyways some fungi some body languages and some veterans, the kinda thing you came here for!

 

First are these clitocybes, least i think they are clitocybes! at frst I thought they where growing in line with lime roots but found the roots where in fact larix decidua, the european larch, any clues Gerrit?

 

 

Then I took Tom off to see some fine veteran trees in the grounds of an old abbey in Missenden, this oak has old fruiting bodies of L. sulphureus on a stub from a failed limb but i am more interested in the bocy language of the root flare. i am still waiting for the fruits of my labours so to speak, but am expecting grifola frondosa to appear, possibly in cahoots with inonotus dryadeus.

 

 

 

In the same Abbey grounds is this fine ancient ash, probably around 400-450 years of age classic Inonotus hispidus retrenchments are obvious, but again it was always the root flare that interested me.

 

 

Whilst looking about the ash root plate i found these little ascomycetes on cow dung, as yet I havent looked up the possibilities but a new one for me all the same:thumbup:

 

You know i have gone full flip when this for the second time this year i have been looking to poo for fungi!

 

 

 

I had suspected these two for some time, and today for the first time they show themselves, pholiota squarossus and perenniporia fraxinea, also another little saprobic group unkown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RobRainford]

I have to say I am jealous of Tom for getting such a position! You know how much I'd love to be working with you like that!

 

Some cool body language in those trees for sure!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have to say I am jealous of Tom for getting such a position! You know how much I'd love to be working with you like that!

 

Some cool body language in those trees for sure!

 

You have my time anytime you want my friend:thumbup1:

[Tom Cook]

It's great working with tony, I think some the names are starting to sink in:s trying to make the most of my 3 month common name allowance:p

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It's great working with tony, I think some the names are starting to sink in:s trying to make the most of my 3 month common name allowance:p

 

What Tom is saying is Ive allowed him 3 months grace for common names, after which he MUST use latin, or get a slap in the back of the head!

 

metephoricaly speaking of course!

[RobRainford]

You have my time anytime you want my friend

 

 

I have to get back into Latin, all this dealing with customers shrubs and conifers and hedges and trees makes me lose touch!

 

Armed myself with some more dendro books so I'll hopefully pick it back up!