The Top ten Fungi

[Dean Lofthouse]

Can't remember Dean, have you got any conies in the wood?

 

 

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No I took them out with the Howitzer last year, there is some in the wood higher up though

[gmanntpo]

Hi Chaps

 

When I worked for Wokingham District Council, there was alot of Pine sp around a lake in a well used public area. I used to see P. schweintzii & S. crispa frequently...

 

Since I've worked in a City in the midlands, I've never come across them or H. annosum...

 

I have some pics, so will post them...

 

It produces an extensive brown rot in the latter stages of colonisation in the roots and lower stem, so defo no mycorrhizal association...

 

Cheers mates!

[David Humphries]

Hi Chaps

 

When I worked for Wokingham District Council, there was alot of Pine sp around a lake in a well used public area. I used to see P. schweintzii & S. crispa frequently...

 

Since I've worked in a City in the midlands, I've never come across them or H. annosum...

 

I have some pics, so will post them...

 

It produces an extensive brown rot in the latter stages of colonisation in the roots and lower stem, so defo no mycorrhizal association...

 

Cheers mates!

 

Thanks for the insight, look forward to the shots.

Did you ever get to see any S. crispa induced failures, Geoff?

 

 

 

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[gmanntpo]

Dude

 

Am racking my brain to try to remember if I saw a failure from S. crispa... Will get back to you!

 

The pics are not great, they were taken on a 35mm and all the best pics I had were in an album that I lost when I moved..(Am a ****!!) The remaining ones were scanned in on a Jpeg.

 

Nevertheless it clearly shows a S.crispa fruit body growing from a Scots Pine basal area...

 

Cheers mate!

[Dean O]

Hi Dean,

was going to post a similar thread, asking what the best resource for learning fungi info was.

when i first started getting interested in trees i remember somebody telling me to learn to I.D 5 (for example) common trees along with their charactistics (growing requirements etc).

guess its a good way of building on fungi knowledge too.