fungal induced habitat

[David Humphries]

Love the second shot Chris, good job they weren't goats though, they tend to make a meal out of tree buttresses

 

 

Last time I looked at the relationship between veteran trees and lambs, one ended up on our dinner table

 

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Edited April 16, 2016 by David Humphries

[Kveldssanger]

Quite polite how the lamb jsut volunteered itself for the oven! I suppose any larger ungulate would likely cause more damage (goats, pigs, cows, horses), no?

[David Humphries]

I suppose any larger ungulate would likely cause more damage (goats, pigs, cows, horses), no?

 

Goats are the minions of Lucifer himself

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Baphomet doesn't have the head of a goat for no reason!

 

Is that goat by the entrance we drove through? That avenue of horse chestnuts, some with Rigidoporus? I perhaps recognise that new fence being where you said there was a cluster of Coprinus feasting on a newly-severed root.

[David Humphries]

Beech that was in decline which has long term colonisation by Merripilus giganteus, the giant polypore.

Secondary saprophytes like the Trametes at the top of the reduced stem have led to decay conditions conducive to feeding and nesting birds.

 

 

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[sean]

 

 

Last time I looked at the relationship between veteran trees and lambs, one ended up on our dinner table

 

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I'm sure it had a good life prior to that but I'm shocked that you take such obvious delight in the fact Mr Humphrie's! Looks bloody good though.

[David Humphries]

I'm sure it had a good life prior to that but I'm shocked that you take such obvious delight in the fact Mr Humphrie's! Looks bloody good though.

 

Tasted bloody good

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Old beech pollard with long term Ganoderma basal decay, unknown top rot being taken advantage of by a woodpecker.....

 

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[Jake Andrews]

Old Aesculus stump left in the churchyard. Can't help but think the polyporus reminds me of an egg custard tart!

[David Humphries]

Long term colonisation of this oak wound by Daedalea quercina.

 

I nipped up and took these shots back in 2010

 

 

 

Here it is 6 years on and the brown rot in the wood has only just recently allowed the incursion by tree nesters.

 

 

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