Hamadryads diary- a new chapter

[RobArb]

ok:lol:

 

Castanea sativa isn't a native species (still no need to import it though), but is imported probably (speculation) due to money reasons, as with anything!

 

And what if.... out of the box thought, this blight only makes our sweet chestnuts stronger in the long run (survival of the fittest and all that)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

ok:lol:

 

Castanea sativa isn't a native species (still no need to import it though), but is imported probably (speculation) due to money reasons, as with anything!

 

And what if.... out of the box thought, this blight only makes our sweet chestnuts stronger in the long run (survival of the fittest and all that)

 

yes, all points:thumbup1:

 

excluding the survival of the fitest, a darwinian logic, that is limiting and very not NI

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Had Charlie over for the day for a bit of recreational climb and some fung hunting!

 

Cheked up on a willow in cassiobury park with Gano and an Oak with rigidiporus ive been monitoring for several years now (David/Gerrit look at this Oak!) few other bits and bobs from around the park and Whippendell woods area.

 

First up the Oak, now ive been watching this one over the years but I must have not looked this autumn for one reason or another and am a bit guttted for I missed the fruting of the third white rotter at the base. I had seen on approach to the tree two limbs with obvious white rot and failure which is a rare occurrence high on Oaks in the U.k, this lead me to ponder what was occurring. I have come to view multiple colonisations of ertain fungi as being of high significance due to the competition for resource within the host, and here we have not 1 not 2 but three white rotting Lower basal colonisers. They are Inonotus dryadeus, Ganoderma sp and Perenniporia fraxinea, a truly multiple attack! and all in nieghbouring buttress regions. The question here is which one is being forced into the higher regions? I suspect its the I.dryadeus. or gano as the basal area has clear perenniporia adaptation and was the original presence (most established)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ganoderma australe (southern bracket) on willow pollard

 

 

Ganoderma pfeifferi on Fagus sylvatica

Hama having a snooze while Charlie practices his limb swings!

A first for me, a perennial canker of sweet chestnut, a very large one on an ancient chestnut

 

Inonotus radiatus on Alder:001_cool:

Rigidiporus on Horse chestnut

Polyporus squamosus failure

Edited March 31, 2012 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[David Humphries]

Interesting spread of fung

 

 

Which species would you guess at the Gano being ?

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Interesting spread of fung

 

 

Which species would you guess at the Gano being ?

 

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I would guess lipsiense, but no where near enough to go on yet

[Fungus]

I would guess lipsiense, but no where near enough to go on yet

 

IME on Salix it's 90 % G. australe.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

IME on Salix it's 90 % G. australe.

 

100% on the willow, were talking about the one on the oak Gerrit:thumbup1:

 

did label the willow one as australe (southern bracket)

[David Humphries]

Would be fascinating to put the resistograph on to the different areas of decay on that Oak.

 

Wonder if Cassiobury & Watford BC would be up for that?

 

have you got a contact for the specific arb officer for the site?

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Would be fascinating to put the resistograph on to the different areas of decay on that Oak.

 

Wonder if Cassiobury & Watford BC would be up for that?

 

have you got a contact for the specific arb officer for the site?

 

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yeah you got one?

[David Humphries]

yeah you got one?

 

It's possible I may know someone who has some degree of access to one

 

 

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