Big bracket

[scott's_pine]

Unusually large bracket fungi on the base of a now-dead poplar... about 800mm across! As you can see in the second picture the bracket is rigid enough to support the weight of my anonymous assistant.

I'm thinking it's Rigidoporus ulmarius. Opinions?

[David Humphries]

Hello Gavin, how are things?

 

 

Your specimens could well be Rigidoporus ulmarius.

 

Personally (from experience) I find it prudent to look at the whole picture before getting too focused on an identification.

 

An image showing the pored underside & a sliced wedge showing the flesh and tube layer are useful additions to the Id task.

 

Particularly when trying to determine similar species like Rigidoporus & Perenniporia

 

 

Impressive fruiting !

 

Do you know what's to become of the tree?

 

 

regards

 

David

[Adam M]

I was going to go with Perenniporia.

[scott's_pine]

Hello Gavin, how are things?

Not bad. I finished my degree. Didn't walk straight into a job but its rare for that to happen. I've got an environmental consultancy wanting to interview me for arb (and possibly ecology) survey/inspection type work so fingers crossed really. I'd really like to work in the kind of environment you guys have at North London Open Spaces (for example)---good mix of survey/inspection/management and hands-on stuff. However I'm not sure how I would get a better level of climbing experience without going back into commercial, physical arb work full-time which i'm not too sure i want to do tbh. hmmm....

 

Your specimens could well be Rigidoporus ulmarius.

 

Personally (from experience) I find it prudent to look at the whole picture before getting too focused on an identification.

 

An image showing the pored underside & a sliced wedge showing the flesh and tube layer are useful additions to the Id task.

 

Particularly when trying to determine similar species like Rigidoporus & Perenniporia

Indeed. I should go and have a closer look at it when this weather eases up.

 

Impressive fruiting !

 

Do you know what's to become of the tree?

David

I would have to ask the TO as it's not a tree I'm working on. I do know that it had a high "pollard type" reduction a number of years ago. Last year it had foliage and this year it had none. So, I guess the reduction was done when some decay had already set in, to reduce the sail area (there are no buildings in the immediate viscinity i.e. no other reason to reduce) and that the decay progressed far enough to kill the tree.

[scott's_pine]

Hello Gavin, how are things?

 

 

 

Do you know what's to become of the tree?

 

 

I took these photos yesterday. Here is your answer.....

[David Humphries]

A nod to the local ecology via a low monolith would have been nice to have seen.

 

Hey ho

 

Thanks for updating Gavin

 

 

 

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[scott's_pine]

I was thinking that myself. Tooting Bec Common (where this tree was) is a nice spot for watching bats at dusk. Mind you, I was up on Streatham Common not too long ago when a monolithed Horse Chestnut come crashing down with an almighty bang over a fairly busy footpath on a day where loads of people were about, so I can't really blame the TO for erring on the side of caution as regards safety/liability in this situation.

[David Humphries]

The issue with standing dead wood is frequency of inspection and further management if required.

 

often poor species choice and host fungi are left and then fail at some future point without being inspected at appropriate intervals.

(Been guilty of this myself)

 

 

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