Can anyone help identify these crusty specimens...

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

All were found on oak (in fact they are all on the same tree).

[Matthew Arnold]

Looks like Ganoderma australe but may be Ganoderma lipsense only way to find out is through a microscope. Got any pictures of the crown and base?

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Here you go.

 

 

[Matthew Arnold]

Big old brute with a full healthy crown with the odd bit of deadwood and lots of body language at the base. Plenty of years left in the old girl yet. Does it have an active Badger sett around it?

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Yes it does.

[Giles Hill]

Lets hope the Badgers are familiar with BS5837.

[McMichael]

Beautiful tree, you planning to work on it or just seen the fungi?

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

I think badgers tend to be more sensitive to trees than most developers!

Lets face it, if you are building your suite of apartments under a huge oak then you are not likely to want it falling on you.

But I will check back soon to make sure their protective fencing is up to scratch!

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Beautiful tree, you planning to work on it or just seen the fungi?

 

Just surveying it as part of the estates management program.

[McMichael]

Just surveying it as part of the estates management program.

 

If the pictured Oak is anything to go by it must be quite an interesting survey. Anywhere we know?