is this Armillaria??

[john p]

they were about 2 ft up,gonna dunk em in water now!!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

aurivella

[Fungus]

aurivella

 

Never seen P. aurivella so close to the base on a standing tree.

[john p]

had a dunk in the sink,(missus well impressed!!),brown spores,happy days,cheers all for help

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Never seen P. aurivella so close to the base on a standing tree.

 

I have a shot of them lower than this on a birch too somewhere:thumbup1:

 

[john p]

virtually the same situation as mine

[treeseer]

I have a shot of them lower than this on a birch too somewhere

 

Nice pic; pretty color on the fb. The infection--ok, association--looks aggravated--ok,toward favoring the fungus--by that stem inclusion above. But the stem is large and it nourishes the woundwood, so it stays, no doubt.

 

With that much woundwood growth, how much stability is lost? How much to reduce? I would think not much...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Nice pic; pretty color on the fb. The infection--ok, association--looks aggravated--ok,toward favoring the fungus--by that stem inclusion above. But the stem is large and it nourishes the woundwood, so it stays, no doubt.

 

With that much woundwood growth, how much stability is lost? How much to reduce? I would think not much...

 

this tree was left untouched, and enabled me to witness something quite unique, a species of crane fly removing and appearing to eat maggots from the fruiting bodies as they decayed. these craneflies are not known to eat, so it was unobserved behaviour! cool!