Tree assessment/forest pathology

[sloth]

Seems like a good place to put this

Dead (sycamore?) monolith with honey (note the ring on the stripe and the white spores in pic 4) at its base and meripilus just behind it. As I understand it the merip must be fruiting from still live roots, so may be associated with the laurel hedge rather than the sycamore.

There is in the neighbouring drive a horse chestnut with dieback. Within its rooting zone is a cart lodge which is a few years old and a driveway adjacent which has been resurfaced in recent years. With horse c leaf miner year on year as well, this tree is starting to feel its age!

Between the monolith and the horse c is more honey fruiting on the ground. Moving in on the stressed horse chestnut, which in time will go the way of the monolith I suspect.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

corr forgot about this thread good bump sloth!

[David Humphries]

Thought it was just a social site Mr Dryad ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

those are some big Melleas man, PANIC i suspect

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thought it was just a social site Mr Dryad ?

 

 

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dont start Monkey!

 

BMS open tommorow?

[sloth]

those are some big Melleas man, PANIC i suspect

 

why do you suspect panic fruiting? I'd have thought they'd have a feast on a big dead stump! What are your thoughts on the merip?

[sloth]

Thought it was just a social site Mr Dryad ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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cheeky

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

cheeky

 

I did have the hump for a while it has to be said, WAS TAKING IT ALL FAR TOO SERIOUSLY:sneaky2:

 

Like i said its more social, like being up the pub with the boys.

 

davids just licking wounds cos he ballsed up a Laccaria ident earlier and got pulled!

Edited November 16, 2012 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[sloth]

why do you suspect panic fruiting? I'd have thought they'd have a feast on a big dead stump! What are your thoughts on the merip?

 

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I did have the hump for a while it has to be said, WAS TAKING IT ALL FAR TOO SERIOUSLY

don't worry, its just your PMT (Pre mushroom-season tension)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

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don't worry, its just your PMT (Pre mushroom-season tension)

 

lol good one, fungi may panic because competition has shown up.

 

meripilus I would have thought is a nightmare on Sycamore, found it myself on a fell we did last year also with K. deusta and Polyporus squamosus the tree was nailed