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

[David Humphries]

Look like a Coprinus species, if so then likely to be acting saproxylically on dysfunctional tissue.

 

 

 

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[Cassian Humphreys]

Choice shots David. I had the joy to have a working holiday - VTA assessments for Hampshire CC Main Roads last year. Saw lots of Veteran Ash with a similar host of fungi as your record...

[David Humphries]

Thanks Cassian

 

if you get the chance I'd like to see what species you're encountering down under on and around trees?

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Polyporus squamosus on the roots of a gorse

 

 

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[sloth]

Unusual find David, bog standard kretz and Ganoderma on copper beech here...

[sloth]

45cm diameter wound on a 1m diameter stem, level with the top of the punching bag, on the back side. Kretz running from in the wound down to the ground, bases of both left and right scaffold branches sounding hollow. Poor thing!

[David Humphries]

Not a good prognosis I'd imagine Kev, coming out?

 

 

 

 

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[sloth]

Can't say at present, is part of a small development site, there is another on the opposite side of the garden, and the client (prior to this discovery) was keen on keeping both. Maybe there'll be scope to keep it in some form in a less used part of what will be a garden...

[Kveldssanger]

Couple shots of L. sulphureus on an old oak wound. Panic fruiting out of the entry wound perhaps? May be well compartmentalised.

 

Images too large to paste here.

 

http://i.imgur.com/7TdUTsa.jpg

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http://i.imgur.com/7uHrwlb.jpg

[David Humphries]

Couple shots of L. sulphureus on an old oak wound. Panic fruiting out of the entry wound perhaps? May be well compartmentalised

 

Nice tear out wound, gives the tree great character.

 

 

Not so sure it's panic fruiting.

Long term past, present and ongoing colinisation I'd think.

 

 

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