Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....

[Yorkshireman]

Hi Ya Dave

 

Yep its a kite of 63 220+ year old limes at an old priory,, really nice place

 

We have recently carried out thermal imaging on the trees & it should be interesting with trees of this age bound to be loads of anolimys & varying degrees of function/disfunction

 

we've been there for quite some time but was actually on site to taken doen 3 H/c with bleeding canker & Honey fungus ,, very very rapid decline from last autumn to now stone dead ,, to the point as we were cutting limb fouls a tree structuraly failed at the root plate & went down in front of our eyes

 

a weird moment to see a tree fall down away from the mewp basket ,,, but cool none the less

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

"Yep its a kite of 63 220+ year old limes at an old priory,, really nice place"

 

 

Whats a kite?

[Yorkshireman]

Its just a descriptive for the planting shape from above it looks like the outline of a traditional kite

 

 

nothing clever ...

[David Humphries]

Laetiporus on Yew, not fruited on here for a couple of years.

 

Took it off so no one could get a dicky tummy from the alkaloid - taxane, which would be absorbed in the flesh of the fruit body.

 

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[chris cnc]

Laetiporus on Yew, not fruited on here for a couple of years.

 

Took it off so no one could get a dicky tummy from the alkaloid - taxane, which would be absorbed in the flesh of the fruit body.

 

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Thats interesting, that the fungi lives with the toxin in the yew, rather than the toxin deterring the fungi.

 

Would the spores of this fruit body carry the toxin?

[Ian H]

Thats interesting, that the fungi lives with the toxin in the yew, rather than the toxin deterring the fungi.

 

Would the spores of this fruit body carry the toxin?

 

haha you beat me to it, just thinking the same thing.

[chris cnc]

haha you beat me to it, just thinking the same thing.

 

you know what they say, great minds think alike!

 

[David Humphries]

Thats interesting, that the fungi lives with the toxin in the yew, rather than the toxin deterring the fungi.

 

Would the spores of this fruit body carry the toxin?

 

haha you beat me to it, just thinking the same thing.

 

 

 

That, I don't know.

 

 

Any volunteers ?

 

 

 

 

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[chris cnc]

im thinking, a localized strain of toxic laeteporous!

 

Possibly damaging its new host tree via the toxin, as well as the decay!

 

Possibly accounting for the 10% (?) of people that experience an allergic reaction to Laeteps!

 

maybe....

[Simon Rotheram]

Suitable for retention...?!!!

 

Inspected this tree today for some architects to see if they should consider retention as part of a set of plans (5837 to follow) doing it back to front as usual but at least they are asking for advice prior to doing the drawings!!