Hamadryads diary- a new chapter

[RobRainford]

I did look at the healing and was unsure. I didnt think shear bomb though! I need to read through my vta book!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I did look at the healing and was unsure. I didnt think shear bomb though! I need to read through my vta book!

 

well i was a bit naughty cos its really only this side as apposed to a true shear bomb going right through.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Xerxes, remember these? The big clump is a little gone over but the smaller clump bit dryer but pretty!

 

Pholiotta aurivella, ashridge park home of the golden scaly one:001_cool:

 

 

 

 

[RobArb]

sweet:cool:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

sweet:cool:

 

 

LOL, your really getting into these fungi aint ya!

[RobArb]

yup, even though i feel my niche is taxonomy/dendrology i do like a good fung:thumbup:

 

plus i need to know them and the association with different tree species within their TSSE (copyright) for my Tree ID Database:cool:

 

And you'll be showing me round ashridge next year:biggrin:

[RobRainford]

What a bunch of fun guys eh

 

It's really starting to grow on me this stuff. Only realised within the past couple of weeks, must be my path!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

yup, even though i feel my niche is taxonomy/dendrology i do like a good fung:thumbup:

 

plus i need to know them and the association with different tree species within their TSSE (copyright) for my Tree ID Database

 

And you'll be showing me round ashridge next year:biggrin:

 

Ashridge is a wonderful place, your going to like it lots, they do a good breaky too!

 

What a bunch of fun guys eh:blushing:

 

It's really starting to grow on me this stuff. Only realised within the past couple of weeks, must be my path!

 

Mycology is "cool" again, mission accomplished:biggrin:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Anyone who follows my threads will know that every now and then i get a bit, well a little bit giddy over something fung related! Today was one of those days, we rolled into a drive today and as soon as we did i knew where we was, this garden is prime habitat.

 

the couple have lived there for many many years and the graden is untarnished and unmolested with chemicals etc, the lawn is full of spindles and agrocybes and mycorrizae growing off the many pine/beech tree roots, inonotus cuticularis is a strong pressence amoung the beeches as is another species specific fungi to beech, ganoderma pfeifferi.

 

I managed to secure a very nice dried and preserved inonotus cuticularis for my fruit body collection, but during my lunchtime stroll about......

 

PANIC!

 

I would have loved to have seen this through the thermo camera, but I will have to make do with my judgment on gut instinct here. pholiotta squarrosus absolutley fruiting for its life, no doubt because all but a few roots in the shear root ball survive and the fungi's time is nigh, as is the trees. I used to think that if a tree looked healthy that this level of decay was impossible, i have come to know that healthy trees can fall with roots as rotten as pears in the late summer heat. there must have been upwards of fifty clumps of fruit bodies forming, and this is way too overboard for the species to be anything but panic fruiting, the tree will be reduced by 50% very soon, and from a MEWP i might add!

 

Oh i was excited to see this I can tell you! like a kid in a candy store with a pocket full of change!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fungus]

the lawn is full of spindles and agrocybes and mycorrizae growing off the many pine tree roots

 

Tony,

Nice and well kept "natural" garden, for the owners.

Photo 6 : Lactarius deliciosus.

Photo 7 : Clavaria vermicularis.

Photo 8 : I assume you mean Hygrocybes, not Agrocybes, because this is Hygrocybe psittacina.