Interesting Biomechanics

[David Humphries]

The most pronounced prop - aerial root combo, I've yet come across.

 

Small dead neighbour leaning on to trunk of a Beech, aerial roots from the adaptive growth to the abrasive wound, melting & wrapping down along the dead tree to the ground.

 

Fine piece of sylvan oportunistic endeavor.

 

Woody fluid adaption - in a gravitational time span.

 

 

 

Shoulda taken more shots

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thats such a great scenario, and makes a very valid contribution to something ive been thinking about for ages, the ways and means of encouraging the rooting of old vets.

 

so we need to plant a new tree beside the old, get it to graft to the old, once grafting complete, kill off the new tree so it decays and encourages the vet to root into it and trace it down to the ground.

 

Will no doubt be ways of simplifying the prosces but you get my thinking.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

aint undifferentiated mersitematic cells a wonderful thing!

[David Humphries]

same old, same old.............

 

haven't really been scanning into this since the fungs gone nuts, so when I came across this Lime this morning, I thought I'd take the opportunity to tune back in

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Three trees from the last couple of days.

 

 

The picture of the roadside Ash pollard doesn't do the taper justice.

 

The inosculated Hornbeam was at Epping.

 

& the fluting on this hornbeam of the wound occlusion was impressive.

 

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[sean freeman]

Admittedly more a case of meristematic madness, but intriguing neverthless...sorry don't know the species took the shots on a rare trip to our capital city Canberra for an Urban Planning Conference...my excuse is that they grow some trees there that I have not seen I was a teenager in the Midlands and North Derbyshire....a time when my focus tended to be more Real Ale based:laugh1:

[David Humphries]

Trees look to be Robinia Sean.

 

Hadn't realised you was a pommie, how long have you been down under?

 

 

Here's a robinia from Sherringham park in Norfolk.

 

 

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Edited September 12, 2010 by Monkey-D

[sean freeman]

Aha Robinia, false acacia yes makes sense the fruit are right and it was a very popular tree in the 80-90's here.

 

Hadn't realised you was a pommie, how long have you been down under?

 

Bit of a colonial boy David, dad in the Army...born in Malaya moved back to UK 1974, spent time in Southern Africa 1984/5 arrived Oz 1988, lived in North Queensland since then but the lack of work for an Arb consultant (which is what I increasingly 'became' around 2006) led me to my current insane travelling yoyo existance.

 

Have attached a shot of the fruit/seeds to confirm your ID....

 

Also below is a lovely fruiting body (I know should be in the other thread sorry I'm being lazy ) not confident about the ID for that either

[David Humphries]

Also below is a lovely fruiting body (I know should be in the other thread sorry I'm being lazy ) not confident about the ID for that either

 

 

 

Me neither

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Sean, thats a Phelinus, probably igniarius, multiple tiers, black hard cracked upper surface, cinnamon tube layer.