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

[Jake Andrews]

Had a good find today whilst surveying.

 

Jake Andrews

[David Humphries]

Good one Jake.

 

 

We were going around checking on some of our monoliths today and came across a relatively interesting association that I hadn't seen before.

 

Heterobasidion annosum on beech, usually found associating with coniferous trees.

 

 

Will have to reduce this standing dead stick down a couple of meters or so to take some weight off what's left of its roots

 

 

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[Jake Andrews]

For safety purposes or the ecological purposes of standing deadwood

 

Jake Andrews

[David Humphries]

For safety purposes or the ecological purposes of standing deadwood

 

Jake Andrews

 

Both

 

 

 

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[daltontrees]

Good one Jake.

 

 

We were going around checking on some of our monoliths today and came across a relatively interesting association that I hadn't seen before.

 

Heterobasidion annosum on beech, usually found associating with coniferous trees.

 

Will have to reduce this standing dead stick down a couple of meters or so to take some weight off what's left of its roots

 

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Not unheard of on Beech. I've never seen it knowingly on Beech in Scotland, but I'll be on the lookout. The most significant thing seems to be that H.a. operates to delignify, whereas I tend to think in tems of cellulose degradation (at least intially) on broadleaf trees for anything that yoyu could mistake for H.a. Any tipsfor distinguishing?

[NFG]

Both

 

 

Some good pictures there David, thanks

 

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[David Humphries]

Smokey bracket on oak, old chicken on yew, stump puffballs on oak and dyers mazegill on coniferous stump in the Stumpery at Ickworth NT

 

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[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Smokey bracket on oak, old chicken on yew, stump puffballs on oak and dyers mazegill on coniferous stump.

 

....these are a few of my favourite things.

when the saw bites, when the chipper sings when Im feeling mad.....

[sloth]

All found recently David? The laeti looks half decent considering time of year. Are you aware of Boddy's discovery that the laeti on yews is not actually sulphureus?

[David Humphries]

All found recently David? The laeti looks half decent considering time of year. Are you aware of Boddy's discovery that the laeti on yews is not actually sulphureus?

 

Taken today Kevin and yes I believe I have read that there are potentially different Laetiporus species and sub species

 

 

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