Lime trees

[RobArb]

I must admit a wry smile might have doth my face too:biggrin:

 

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[sloth]

I must admit a wry smile might have doth my face too:biggrin:

 

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Ditto!

[Gary Prentice]

 

Let us look at this anamorph, we can see the membranous velar remnants on the floccose margin making this saprotrophic"!

 

Can you expand on why the velar remains make it saprotrophic? Is there another form without a velar that's parasitic?

[MATTMOSS]

I have just been laughing out loud and knocked my beer over

[jjll]

The photos do look like Flammulina velutipes. As David has already said (which Lonsdale agrees with) it tends to be a secondary pathogen so a more detailed look at the trees is probably worthwhile.

 

I can't say I have a lot of experience of seeing failed limbs/trees with this fungus present, and Lonsdale also says "little is known" of the type of decay.

 

What's the 'target area' around the trees? Are they valuable in terms of visual amenity? Perhaps a heavy reduction to remove the affected parts would be a way forward?

 

Cheers for all the feedback.

The target areas on 2 are some Cotswold stone stables, and another one that isn't actually in the property that looks to have a lot of the fungus, is shadowing a house and garage. I would say they were mature trees that look to have had little or no previous work carried out on them. They boarder a small woodland area and paddock. Due to the house being in a small village and con/area I'm sure someone would find them valuable in terms of visual amenity. The trees surrounding the stable area have other sizeable trees in close proximity, so any work carried out would be less prominent, whereas the ones along the woodland boundary can be seen from a country lane.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

This is an anamorph of psilocybe semilancata, aka the halfwit fungus, we can not rule out melanophyllum haematospermum but these all died out in august so the only point me mentioning it is to show other readers that I am familliar with the mame.

 

Let us look at this anamorph, we can see the membranous velar remnants on the floccose margin making this saprotrophic with campanulate caps and highly fluid active sporulatory, fibrilose appendiculate lameliform with labyrinthine slantingly denate or tiered on perpendicular substrates

 

So what does this tell us if we look at the way the fibers are laying? The tree is becomming "disscontinued"!

 

do you know thats pretty funny:lol:

 

its very flattering to have so much attention from you Jonny!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Can you expand on why the velar remains make it saprotrophic? Is there another form without a velar that's parasitic?

 

he is taking the Pee mate, out of me, not you incedently

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The photos do look like Flammulina velutipes. As David has already said (which Lonsdale agrees with) it tends to be a secondary pathogen so a more detailed look at the trees is probably worthwhile.

 

I can't say I have a lot of experience of seeing failed limbs/trees with this fungus present, and Lonsdale also says "little is known" of the type of decay.

 

What's the 'target area' around the trees? Are they valuable in terms of visual amenity? Perhaps a heavy reduction to remove the affected parts would be a way forward?

 

when you say Lonsdale agrees are you referring to a recent communication (Pers comm) or the book Principles of hazard assessment?

 

and dont think Pathogen is appropriate, certainly not from either of the Davids, find it hard to believe either would use the term in this context (F. velutipes.

 

Its saprophytic, hence fruiting from exposed ripewood/deadwood particularly in Aesculous infected by psuedomona (Bleeding horse chestnut canker) more details on the type of decay etc will be found in stamets and/or japanese medicinal mushroom research, this fungi is highly regarded. Its not so much that little is known, its that less is known in fungi phobic victorian minded England:001_smile: as sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it,"The fields were spotted with monstrous fungi of a size and color never matched before - scarlet and mauve and liver and black. It was as though the sick earth had burst into foul pustules; mildew and lichen mottled the walls, and with that filthy crop, Death sprang also from the water-soaked earth."

 

over to jonny.....

[David Humphries]

when you say Lonsdale agrees are you referring to a recent communication (Pers comm) or the book Principles of hazard assessment?

 

and dont think Pathogen is appropriate, certainly not from either of the Davids, find it hard to believe either would use the term in this context

 

 

 

Can't really speak for the other one, but this David doesn't believe he did

 

 

 

 

 

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