Weeping beech

[Fungus]

Yesterday I visited the very old park and woodlands of Heuven near Rheden (National Park Veluwezoom), where I found this grafted weeping beech. Most of the lower branches had bent down to the ground, rooted and regenerated as clones of the mother tree.

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[Steve Bullman]

Awesome tree!

[silky fox]

Great specimin Gerrit..weeping forms of trees are beautiful. i lived in Holland for four years and worked on many trees over there but i wasn,t familiar with Rehden...when i googled it it came up as Saxony..is this correct?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

nice images Gerrit.

[Fungus]

Rehden...when i googled it it came up as Saxony..is this correct?

 

No, it's Rheden near Arnhem.

[Fungus]

nice images

 

Noticed the Peniophora cinerea in the fourth picture ?

[David Humphries]

gerrit, thanks for sharing the images of what looks to be a fine specimen.

 

Is the leaf litter purely from the Beech or is it subject to a mulch programme?

 

Any beech specific fungi activity in the mulch ?

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

Is the leaf litter purely from the Beech or is it subject to a mulch programme? Any beech specific fungi activity in the mulch ?

 

It's purely from the tree and apart from Peniophora cinerea on a dead branch, I only found Xylaria carpophila and Lachnum (Dasyscyphus) virgineum on half buried capules.