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  1. Tom Joye
    Hi David, a lot more willows than usually seemed to suffer last year, but particularly the corkscrew willows. I'll contact you one of these days, still working out how many we will be. Cheers, Tom
  2. Tom Joye
    I saw the same all over Belgium last year already. Haven't found out yet what might cause the decline.
  3. Tom Joye
    I'd stick with the Ganoderma. Doesn't look like Fomes fomentarius to me. Looks like you have the same problem I had a couple of messages earlier (alltough this might be Pholiota squarrosa, certainly the third picture)As Monkeyd says: lots of Pholiota species out there (btw. thanks Monkeyd, I can live with 'Pholiota something' )
  4. Tom Joye
    Well, the gelatinous cap is the only feature of P. aurivella that wasn't there, for the rest is was very alike. But what are the other options? It's not rough enough for P. squarrosa, is it?
  5. Tom Joye
    Hi all, could this be Pholiota aurivella? It's on beech
  6. Tom Joye
    some more pics. Sadly enough, the fruiting body was gone by the time I passed there teaching VTA. Since it's not edible, I guess some punks (been one too, so I forgive them) just kicked it around. The pine has quite extensive brown rot in it and it's leaning over a path, but as this (public!) parc is closed during high winds, the trees can die standing (not my decision, so sont' freak out ). As you can see, the crowns of all the old pines in the area are quite torn apart (by wind I guess).
  7. Tom Joye
    not sure if it's meripilus. Here are some pics of young merip of diferent age.
  8. Tom Joye
    Same up here, some old pines scattered in a deciduous wood (oak, beech, sweet chestnut, ...) That's already two lucky spores I'm going back to this estate tomorrow, I'll try to find out if any of the other pines are infected and I'll try to take some more pictures of the tree and his surroundings.
  9. Tom Joye
    If even my girlfriend thinks I'm crazy, I don't wanna know what joe public thinks
  10. Tom Joye
    Thanks a million, Monkeyd. I never would have found out that one by myself, it actually looks much prettier than in the guides
  11. Tom Joye
    I've found this fungus in the woods yesterday, at the stem base of an old scotch pine. I've never seen anything like this before, I don't even know if it's parasitic, saprophitic or mycorrhizal. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot, Tom
  12. Tom Joye
    yep, sure looks like dryads saddle to me!
  13. Tom Joye
    We have stopped using steel cables, we now only use Dyneema ropes. It's amazing how light and strong they are. Not cheap though, but the working comfort has increased big time!
  14. Tom Joye
    I saw exactly the same a month ago, mainly on epicormic growth. Must be genetic, but I don't think it's was variegated one. Have no better explanation though. As you can see in the second picture, a big limb broke out some time ago.
  15. Tom Joye
    The shell is great!
  16. Tom Joye
    I'm with you on this one, Monkeyd, doesn't look like the immature stage of Ustulina to me. Don't know what it might be, though. I was told Ustulina was sometimes (often?) associated with horizontal tearing off of roots. I found this on a lime covered in Ustulina (hollow and rotten but still standing and trying to react): two or three roots were torn off. Anybody heard anything similar?
  17. Tom Joye
    No giants, but the three biggest sweet chestnuts of Flanders and a Ficus in the middle of Valencia. Not as big as some others earlier in this thread, but a biggie for a city tree.
  18. Tom Joye
    Thanks for the link. Found that one already though The database we're buidling is going to be the extended version of this, I guess. I'll keep you posted...
  19. Tom Joye
    yep, but this database only has pictures, I'm looking for as much info as possible. Thanks a lot for the link. Tom
  20. Tom Joye
    By the way, those Acer campestre in your pictures are quite impressive as well. That might persuade me it is actually Acer campestre I was looking at.
  21. Tom Joye
    Ghent indeed is a great city to live in. Been living here for 10 years now and still exploring... Whenever you are in Belgium again, give me a shout. We could drink some of those famous Belgian beers and talk about trees... and women: my perfect world
  22. Tom Joye
    Thanks! Acer campestre was also my first tought when I saw the leaves, but it's just not possible. It's huge (at least 20m high)! The tree is in the Citadelpark in Ghent, the city where I live in Belgium. The park is more or less 130 years old, so I guess the oldest trees must be about the same age. Altough an Acer campestre this size seems hard to believe, I don't have any better ideas, so we'll go with that
  23. Tom Joye
    That's a coincidence: found a dryads saddle on an Acer yesterday as well, but not sure which species of Acer. Any ideas? And another one on Salix, today.
  24. Tom Joye
    Hi all, our training centre got funding for the development of a tree species database. The database schould give you the appropriate tree species according to the site characteristics and the preconditions you enter (ecology, history, size, colour, ...). So now I'm trying to find if there are already similar databases on the internet. Already found some American University databases, but I'm sure there's more. Any ideas? thanks in advance, Tom
  25. Tom Joye
    I was wondering for one moment if you meant my accent

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