Pholiota squarrosa - literature

[Tallgrass]

The knowledge on pholiota squarrosa is quite limited in all the standard textbooks, (Manual of wood decays, Fungal strategies of Wood decay in Trees etc etc).

 

Can anyone recommend any new literature or studies at all please? We are finding a lot this year on cherry, willow and ash in Sheffield.

 

Any further reading would be great.

 

Thanks

Leonie

[David Humphries]

The knowledge on pholiota squarrosa is quite limited in all the standard textbooks, (Manual of wood decays, Fungal strategies of Wood decay in Trees etc etc).

 

Can anyone recommend any new literature or studies at all please? We are finding a lot this year on cherry, willow and ash in Sheffield.

 

Any further reading would be great.

 

Thanks

Leonie

 

Hello Leonie

 

Nothing really to add to the books that you've already listed & I don't know of any specific studies or anything in text more recent, apart from perhaps the Arboricultural Associations Fungi on Trees An Arborists Field Guide, (Guy Watson & Ted Green) which lists P. squarrosa as affecting the stem base & principal roots resulting in an intense white rot with evidence of a selective delignification in its early stages.

 

I've found it to be a relatively slow decay of standing trees which can lead to wind throw.

 

The graffitied one below is still standing with a full canopy on a field edge having had the association for a good number of years, whereas the second image was from a heavily decayed & decliining woodland ash that has subsequently failed (during high winds) since the image was taken.

 

 

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[dgcunningham]

I can vouch for that Leonie,

 

found a load on the roadside Sorbus intermedia opposite the Plough Pub between Grindleford and Hathersage. Collected a few for the specimen collection in the freezer (on the shelf below the oven chips). Been a good year for them.

 

Can't help you with additional literature above what you have already listed. Possible PHD subject?