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

[David Humphries]

That may well be available soon!!

 

 

Cool, look forward to it

 

 

 

 

In the meantime a couple of sneaky florets of Phaeolus schweinitzii trying to fool me and pretending to be Heterobasidion

 

Here on the roots of a burnt out Pine shard

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Nice dyer's mazegill shots there! Spotted some up near Sandy Heath at the weekend, on a pine - both coming up from the root plate and on the shattered stem.

[David Humphries]

Nice dyer's mazegill shots there! Spotted some up near Sandy Heath at the weekend, on a pine - both coming up from the root plate and on the shattered stem.

 

Sandy Heath or West Heath Chris?

 

 

The ones above are from Sandy Heath taken yesterday

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/51%C2%B034'00.9%22N+0%C2%B011'02.7%22W/@51.5669238,-0.1846182,124m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d51.566923!4d-0.184071

 

So West Heath, actually.

[David Humphries]

Here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/51%C2%B034'00.9%22N+0%C2%B011'02.7%22W/@51.5669238,-0.1846182,124m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d51.566923!4d-0.184071

 

So West Heath, actually.

 

Ah, that makes more sense, wasn't aware of any more fruitings on Sandy.

 

Was your trip out across the Heath with Andy?

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

It was, indeed. Saw plenty of boletes being munched on by Hypomyces chrysospermus, and some really cool Scleroderma citrinum being parasitised by Pseudoboletus parasiticus! From the latter, I learned that it's actually a mycorrhizal bolete, though cannot get the necessary amount of nutrients from its mycorrizal associations alone and thus feasts on earthballs as well.

[David Humphries]

Cool, Andy's a mine of fungal knowledge, taught me loads so he has.

 

The Heaths mycology is literally bubbling away under the surface just waiting to erupt.

 

Should be soon.

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Give us a heads up when it really kicks into gear and I'll come up again. Think Andy is doing a walk in late October there, actually.

[openspaceman]

This cutleaf beech seems to have had some old school tree surgery

 

 

I last saw it over 10 years ago and was surprised it had survived the axe as it is only 30ft from a minor, sunken road and the bracket was quite big then. It's interesting also in that there are 3 daughter trees in the drip line, I am told by the boss they probably layered from drooping branches. As he and I were back there today felling a dead cedar I had a look and the brackets are spectacular.

 

 

Closer inspection reveals the old 2" steel drains and the cavity top middle has occluded over chicken mesh to deter animals. I imagine the tree must be substantially hollow now.

 

 

The house is on the market so I wonder if the new owner will be quite so laissez faire

[David Humphries]

Cracking tree !

 

 

 

Reduction springs to mind

 

 

 

 

 

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