Giles Hill
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It does seem to have a sinsiter glow about it.
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I'll be checking 'my' one out too, next time I'm in the area, just to make sure... I'm still at the 'process of elimination' stage of fungi i.d. rather than knowing what most of them are from one glance.
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Thanks Arob, I did enjoy it, always interesting to read a well reasoned debate - with a few wind-ups to keep it going!
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Arob, can you post a link to the follow up thread, or tell me where it is?
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Here’s one that I decided was I. dryadeus (hopefully correctly!): I’m posting the picture because the ones at the beginning of the thread looked similar to me, but a bit more advanced. It was growing at the base of an oak, I thought it looked quite like a white bread roll - it was a young bracket and had only just started to drip. The ones in the original pic are reddish brown, but I thought that was just where reddy brown exude had dripped on them from brackets above. Colour-wise, photos can be a bit misleading; likewise the fuzzy, rather than smooth appearance might be down to a slight lack of camera focus that you get taking pictures in the shade beneath trees.
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I. hispidus exudes clear droplets.
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I. dryadeus is a butt rotting fungus. I don't think it necessarilly kills oaks, but it can weaken them and lead to branch loss. I saw it recently on an old oak pollard in a car park and it was decided to retain the tree, but re-pollard it to remove the danger of large branches falling off and also to reduce wind leverage, so the stem won't snap. That's the plan anyway. If it's an Ionotus 30ft up in an ash tree then it's more likely to be I. hispidus.
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According to my little book: Huntingdon elm can be distinguished from wych by its 2cm petiole - wych elm has very short leaf stalks. The petioles on the photo look quite long, so my earlier guess, based on Wych being more common up north is probably wrong - assuming it is one or the other and not smooth leaved...
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Nice. I'm not great with elms, but judging by the location rather than the pictures, I'd guess it's a Wytch elm. I've seen a few good sized elms in Suffolk, most not quite the girth of that one to be fair. I did see one huge individual on a walk, but I can't remember exactly where now, I think it was somewhere near Woodbridge. There's a nice one in the churchyard at Hambleton, (the peninsular in Rutland Water) and of course there's plenty on the streets of Brighton and Amsterdam. I always have a good look when I do see them though. I'm coming up to 40 myself - they were mostly gone as a common feature of the countryside before I became aware of them.
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I was googling for information on butt rotting fungus -I don't get out much...
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I meant it was aphid resistant and so you don't get the same problems with honey dew that you do with other limes. It sometimes gets used near car parks for this reason.
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Hello, It looks like euchlora to me. They're usually planted because they don't drip, but their crown shape isn't very nice. According to my book they usually flower after other limes - mostly in late July...
