RobArb

Awesome:thumbup:

You know your tropical wood:thumbup: Now give me there latin names an I will be impressed:lol:

Where the botanic gardens in the German part of Basel, or in the Swiss Centre? Somewhere I've added to my "to go to" list:thumbup:

I'd of done it for beer money using just my bow saw:001_rolleyes:

I hope the film is worth it:001_tt2: (Is the sinkage not indicative of I. d.?)

What about the "sinkage" in the stem at the base around the fb?

I could arrange to go back and cut it, but what if it is the Oak pip and I get my hands smacked

I had that problem The other when also quoting Mr Humphries, he's playing tricks:lol:

Does this not strike you as I dryadeus?

I did think gano resi at first. But gut tells me no. I thought it was dryadeus second, but I have to agree with you David the pores seem wrong (on more photos ive got). How would I go about deciphering it if it is the Oak polypore without damaging it? (It has got some uncanny resemblance to some Google images for pipto querc, but we all know what the Internet is like)

I know (or more, i reckon), it's a old slug/insect eaten Inonotus dryadeus

Some sort of African iron wood?

Not sure what else it could be?

I got all but the hovenia. Some really nice trees there:thumbup:

Two different pedunculate oaks from today at a National Trust site. 1st - merip & fistulina present 2nd - laeti & gano (possibly resi but not sure)

Haha oops:blush:

I can't see this being polyporus? ? (See polyporus thread that I can't seem to stop posting in:confused1:)

I don't get it? Why is this not going into the merip thread where I have been posting it?

Oops posted in the wrong forum:blush: Ehem.. No way is this P. s. ?? Found this too albeit out from a few years ago

No way is that P. s.?? Found this too, albeit from a few years ago

Same FB a week later

Ok I may have been slightly out with blaming religion wholly, but it plays its part. Basically, it comes down to money, power, technology, energy and oil... and those that stand to profit from revolution and war; the nuclear industry, the big oils, the OPEC members. As far back as the the industrial revolution, 20% of the world' s population had their lives improved whilst vast swathes of people suffered miserable slave like existences, toiling the ground for natural resources feeding the cats while their own land was left polluted and spoiled. The information revolution is doing the same thing on a local and global scale. Again the lives of 20% are improved whilst others (especially in manufacturing) are rendered jobless, destitute and excess to society's needs. Poor countries fall into the information divide and their populations lag even further behind as they squander their income just trying to keep the lights on. The poverty and pollution of the oil age will continue - pumping oil, shoveling coal, dumping nuclear waste by the ton. The wars will go on whilst more greedy politicians and energy companies bathe in crisp bank notes. We'll have more debacles like Iraq and Afghanistan and currently possibly Syria. Iran will be next and then the whole Arabian peninsula when the house of Saud collapses. USA will bankrupt itself fighting wars in the desert out can not win, whilst the rest of Europe (excluding the UK if we continue to shack up worth big uncy sam) and Asia watch and reap the rewards communism wins). There is a dangerous imbalance between the first and third worlds on this unstable planet and a cheap, renewable, easily accessible energy source would go along way to rectifying the problems we have. Unfortunately there is negative side to the human condition, one which is prevalent most in our so called leaders...

Wishful thinking I'm afraid. The cynic in me thinks that even if there was a scientist out there that could cure the rapid expansion of the human population peacefully, there would be some governmental, political or military regime out there that would bury it because it wouldn't make them any money or that war wasn't involved...

The sooner the world gets to grips with the (currently hypothetical) energy resource "Cold Fusion", and does away with ALL religion (not faith, and yes there is a difference) the better! Can't see that happening in my lifetime though, unless you believe in the current rate of exponential population growth, and most of us are all screwed anyway