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Ben Ballard

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  1. Thats what i call extreme fungi hunting:thumbup1:
  2. Hi rich when is a good time for you for me to ring you sometime this week

    cheers

    Ben

  3. looks like you had a great day,that is one big lime ,what is the fungi in the wound on the beech in pic 7?
  4. :001_cool:nice one I lookforward to see what you find
  5. Ben Ballard

    Beech roots

    great shots lads amazing how roots grow:thumbup1:
  6. nice one gerrit cool information, i thought i had lost this photo but was in a different file i posted the young forming fruit in a different thread a couple weeks ago
  7. lol just found these photos must have been down from around 87
  8. Nice big fungi frank:thumbup1: we had a merrip fruit 8 years after the felling the stump was cut at ground level.
  9. Happy birthday Rich have a great day:thumbup1:
  10. will ask him in a couple days if he not of sick with a bad tummy,i gave some to a chef last year that seemed to enjoy it but they do like the unushal flavors of wild mushrooms ,
  11. i dont eat it my self regarding the beef steak i was told to soak it in milk over night to remove to bitter taste,wine sounds interesting:001_smile:
  12. cheers a barter is much more rewarding in some cases especially with friends i just made a fire place mantel for my bro in law in exchange he helping me do my fence, every bodies happy:thumbup1:
  13. was happy with my finds today my daughter was to her first puff ball. i swapping a puff ball for some venison sausages with the game dealer and the beefsteak i swapped for a box of fruit and veg with a gardener. [ATTACH]755
  14. cheers for the link gerrit,sorry to hear about the holidays situation hama
  15. cheers hama ,one last fungi fix before hols:lol:
  16. found this from a few years ago sorry for the poor quality photo ,a lot of stumps were burried after the 87 storm so get a few things pop up:001_smile:could it be meripillus looked different to when found it else wear?
  17. niceone rob i remember seeing that tree with the cool limb when i was there last year:thumbup1:
  18. that looks a good set up you cooking with, food always tastes best in the woods:001_smile:
  19. thank you all for the info just to ad i have seen oyster fungi on the first limb
  20. could it be pannic fruiting if this many has just appeared,so your saying they all ganoderma just deformed?the one on the fallen bit seemed like any other i seen .it a big beech with circumference of 5.5m at breast height
  21. forgot to ad but when first found this a month ago it had droplets on the fruits
  22. yes David the gano is the one you said i believe also on the trunk above the butress was a bit of a bleed,cheers for the replys:001_smile:
  23. These fruits appeared this year is this a inonotus or a gano or something else? the base of the tree is hollowing but no visable fruits there,above the growth a limb had fallen 5 years ago that had gano brackets on the fallen part.this tree is near a other beech that has some kind of inonotus,hama it the a tree you seen last year near the beech with the unknow inonotus you had a sample from:001_smile:
  24. cheers:001_smile: it was on chalky unmanaged grass land south faceing:001_smile:
  25. nice orchid gollum is this one ?

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