The diary of an obsessive compulsive arborist

[Adam Bourne]

Great shots tony, do you know the beetle? Looked rather cool. another croft tour in the bag and looking like you had fun again....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Great shots tony, do you know the beetle? Looked rather cool. another croft tour in the bag and looking like you had fun again....

 

ive no idea at the mo, got the books out and having a look, he is a handsome beast! found another in another Oak so guessing thats the habitat preference sorted too!

 

Racking up the sites under my belt! getting into all the private ones these days by invitation, I love my job!

[David Humphries]

the final image one of extreme rarity and ive hunted for years, Gerrit, if your looking the last is for you, and it was not the only tree on this site either. One more peice of the jigsaw falls into place. Yes the last image is fistulina hepatica fruiting from behind last years fruiting bodies of inonotus dryadeus, brown over white rot!

 

Saw these two on an oak down in dorest a few years back, think they were on the dual decay thread just about when you joined arbtalk Tony.

Agreed its a rare sighting to see together on the same tree, particularly interacting in the same area of the tree.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

the final image one of extreme rarity and ive hunted for years, Gerrit, if your looking the last is for you, and it was not the only tree on this site either. One more peice of the jigsaw falls into place. Yes the last image is fistulina hepatica fruiting from behind last years fruiting bodies of inonotus dryadeus, brown over white rot!

 

Saw these two on an oak down in dorest a few years back, think they were on the dual decay thread just about when you joined arbtalk Tony.

Agreed its a rare sighting to see together on the same tree, particularly interacting in the same area of the tree.

 

 

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[Adam Bourne]

Violet ground beetle (Carabus violaceus), probably the commonest of the larger British and European carabids,

 

There we go tony, just thought I would put this up save you the job and just for others who were unsure.....

[Adam Bourne]

Violet ground beetle (Carabus violaceus), probably the commonest of the larger British and European carabids,

 

There we go tony, just thought I would put this up save you the job and just for others who were unsure.....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Saw these two on an oak down in dorest a few years back, think they were on the dual decay thread just about when you joined arbtalk Tony.

Agreed its a rare sighting to see together on the same tree, particularly interacting in the same area of the tree.

 

 

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Like your images I am not talking about in seperate portions of the tree system, I have found that on a fairly frequent basis, the tree is after all a compartmented system. This one is unique in my studies as it is fruting from within the same point of exit as the Inonotus dryadeus, which leads to another interesting question to study.

 

The case book and basis of the paper and its complexity is getting very nicely refined. really starting to get this thing together now, cant wait to get into a lab!

 

Violet ground beetle (Carabus violaceus), probably the commonest of the larger British and European carabids,

 

There we go tony, just thought I would put this up save you the job and just for others who were unsure.....

 

Thanks Adam, your a little star:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Saw these two on an oak down in dorest a few years back, think they were on the dual decay thread just about when you joined arbtalk Tony.

Agreed its a rare sighting to see together on the same tree, particularly interacting in the same area of the tree.

 

 

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Like your images I am not talking about in seperate portions of the tree system, I have found that on a fairly frequent basis, the tree is after all a compartmented system. This one is unique in my studies as it is fruting from within the same point of exit as the Inonotus dryadeus, which leads to another interesting question to study.

 

The case book and basis of the paper and its complexity is getting very nicely refined. really starting to get this thing together now, cant wait to get into a lab!

 

Violet ground beetle (Carabus violaceus), probably the commonest of the larger British and European carabids,

 

There we go tony, just thought I would put this up save you the job and just for others who were unsure.....

 

Thanks Adam, your a little star:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Had a stroll in My beloved wood today, missed her I have, there are many woods I visit, some overwhelm me in their stature and presence, but Whippendell, well she is an intimate little wood, with more character and mozaic features than you can shake a stick at, and everytime I return it feels like home.

 

A fine group of trees, the Oak right of shot showing classic basal buckling from brown rot (most likely Laetiporus sulphureus)

 

Ganoderma sp, most likely Australe on veteran beech, showing the finest of reiterative roots forming via the embryonic natre of Callus/occlusion tissues.

 

One of my biggest ATF records at whip, a sweet chestnut of 8metres plus

 

and her smaller sister at 6 plus

 

A fistulina bracket on the above Castenea

 

Armillaria rhizomorphs on Beech roots, with Perenniporia fraxinea in background

 

A recently veteranised Beech, one of three of a group and the last survivor of the three.

 

Laetiporus sulphureus on failed (also cause of failure) prunus avium

 

meripilus

 

Muntjac feeding on Holly regen

 

Colybia fusipes, a great image to confirm my thoughts on this parasite of Oaks and often Beech too, note the reiterative roots, a typical scenario and why in the long term Colybia can win with low vigour/vitality trees. It feeds on cambium tissues and fine roots up to 2 inches or so in diameter.

 

Learning from whip all the time, this earth boundary was planted in sequence of Oak beech, never noticed before but its a definite pattern.

 

My nightmare scenario seems to have occurred here, phytopthora, and its looking bad. I have been dreading this moment for years, Now this is war on those responsible for the importation for thirty years of pathogens from a country that couldnt give a flying whatsit about our trees, just like the border control agencies.

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of shots of my baby beech natural pollard via Laetiporus sulphureus, ring barked Sycamores starting to wane and a windo of light seems to be helping her no end, her leaves are bigger and greener than last year and the black sooty fungus that was colonising the bark is fading! RESULT:001_cool:

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Had a stroll in My beloved wood today, missed her I have, there are many woods I visit, some overwhelm me in their stature and presence, but Whippendell, well she is an intimate little wood, with more character and mozaic features than you can shake a stick at, and everytime I return it feels like home.

 

A fine group of trees, the Oak right of shot showing classic basal buckling from brown rot (most likely Laetiporus sulphureus)

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Ganoderma sp, most likely Australe on veteran beech, showing the finest of reiterative roots forming via the embryonic natre of Callus/occlusion tissues.

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One of my biggest ATF records at whip, a sweet chestnut of 8metres plus

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and her smaller sister at 6 plus

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A fistulina bracket on the above Castenea

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Armillaria rhizomorphs on Beech roots, with Perenniporia fraxinea in background

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A recently veteranised Beech, one of three of a group and the last survivor of the three.

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Laetiporus sulphureus on failed (also cause of failure) prunus avium

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meripilus

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Muntjac feeding on Holly regen

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Colybia fusipes, a great image to confirm my thoughts on this parasite of Oaks and often Beech too, note the reiterative roots, a typical scenario and why in the long term Colybia can win with low vigour/vitality trees. It feeds on cambium tissues and fine roots up to 2 inches or so in diameter.

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Learning from whip all the time, this earth boundary was planted in sequence of Oak beech, never noticed before but its a definite pattern.

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My nightmare scenario seems to have occurred here, phytopthora, and its looking bad. I have been dreading this moment for years, Now this is war on those responsible for the importation for thirty years of pathogens from a country that couldnt give a flying whatsit about our trees, just like the border control agencies.

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A couple of shots of my baby beech natural pollard via Laetiporus sulphureus, ring barked Sycamores starting to wane and a windo of light seems to be helping her no end, her leaves are bigger and greener than last year and the black sooty fungus that was colonising the bark is fading! RESULT:001_cool:

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