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

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So am I barking entirely up the wrong tree here Tony. I hate my memory, regurgitating bits of information of things I've read sometimes years before. I seem to think that Gerrit said something along the lines of " if you understand the quantity of wood degraded to produce the FB, you'd leave it be"

 

I may be extrapolating and getting confused. But if I'm so far out that, I've fallen out the tree, I could do with knowing.

 

true, it takes a fair amount of wood to produce a fruit body, Lynne Boddy says that fruit bodies contain high amounts of Nitrogen (pers comm) and gerrit stated a fruitbody is about 20% of the weight of the wood consumed, though exactly what he said I couldnt quote. I would like to analyse the details scientifically as there is no specific work I can as yet identify to elaborate.

 

Take mycorrhizea, they say that it requires around 80,000,000 mycorrhizal nodes or root tips to have enough energy to form a fruit body, so gives some indication of just how much mass/energy is required to be converted to solid fruitbody.

 

The fact we are having this conversation at all is for me joyous, mycology was a silent subject talked of in dusty rooms not so many years ago:001_cool:

[Gary Prentice]

true, it takes a fair amount of wood to produce a fruit body, Lynne Boddy says that fruit bodies contain high amounts of Nitrogen (pers comm) and gerrit stated a fruitbody is about 20% of the weight of the wood consumed, though exactly what he said I couldnt quote. I would like to analyse the details scientifically as there is no specific work I can as yet identify to elaborate.

 

Take mycorrhizea, they say that it requires around 80,000,000 mycorrhizal nodes or root tips to have enough energy to form a fruit body, so gives some indication of just how much mass/energy is required to be converted to solid fruitbody.

 

The fact we are having this conversation at all is for me joyous, mycology was a silent subject talked of in dusty rooms not so many years ago:001_cool:

 

Thanks Tony, as I try to educate myself further it becomes more and more apparent, that trees can't just be viewed in isolation, in a vacuum. The further you study, the wider the field. It's a whole new world of mycology, physics, engineering, entomology, bacteriology etc etc:thumbup:

[Gray git]

Thanks toTony and David for that, it's all something I find very interesting but lack the time to learn more than the day too day about.

At least with this willow although huge the only targets are an old Apple and a hedge into a file with no public access so fairly low risk to allow nature to take its course.

Wish I'd kept some FAB for lunch as apparently quite tasty.

[Wolfie]

Been keeping an eye on this Beech tree whenever passing.

 

Think its perenniporia or rigdioporus.

Saw an identical bracket slightly further up the buttress flair on a London Plane the other day.

 

 

Don't think any of the neighbours or the parish council will admit ownership of the tree.

 

 

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[treeseer]

Any link to that as he is convinced that by removing the fruiting bodies he Will remove the problem and preserve the tree as that's what the bloke who cuts the grass told him????

It's the $%^&*(&^%$ grass that is doing the damage!

 

Get the @#$E%R&*%^*$^&%YT$#@^$ soil off the #$%^%$^ stem!

 

[Gray git]

It's the $%^&*(&^%$ grass that is doing the damage!

 

Get the @#$E%R&*%^*$^&%YT$#@^$ soil off the #$%^%$^ stem!

 

 

Well I think I get the jist of that symbolizes rant

[Warren Stirling]

Nice clump of I dryadeus on this oak. Plenty of dessicated remains on opposite side of tree and mr mallet tells me there's significant decay at base. Along with crown decline, plenty of epicormic growth, kids swings and slide underneath and driveway have recommended removal.

[David Humphries]

Fine set of shots Warren

 

Equally fine set of brackets

 

 

 

 

 

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[Warren Stirling]

Thanks David, a fine set of brackets indeed.

 

Good to meet you and your team the other day by the way.

[Matthew Corran]

Came across these today on an old stump, anyone got any ideas what they are?