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A job I did last week. The first photograph shows major limb failure from last year. (This is what all you coroneters and natural fracture merchants should be aspireing to!) The tree is riddled with Resinaceum pretty much girdling the tree. The limb above the failed limb has fractured substantially. Although in a small wood it has a desire line running past and is popular with walkers within Richmond Park. Spec was an average of 25% (lighter/heavier in places.) I know this work is a contentious subject which some of you will appreciate whilst others will hate. All comments however are welcome.

Armillaria mellea mycelium, note the fan pattern, classic. [ATTACH]28935[/ATTACH] Now that is a work of art....me like it.

Just received this from mike abbott at Living Wood......sounds like it could be good. Abbotts Living Wood Newsletter, January 2010 BBC 2 Mastercrafts A new decade is starting and I have a strong feeling that it is going to be a very good time for green wood crafts. So far as I know at the moment, starting on February 12th, a new series entitled Mastercrafts (not Masterclass as I have been telling people) will be shown on BBC 2 at 9pm for the next 6 weeks. Each week will feature a traditional craft: thatching, glass, weaving, stone-masonry, metal work and green woodwork. The series will be hosted by Monty Don with the aim of ‘putting traditional crafts firmly back on the map in modern Britain’. This means that an hour of prime time TV will concentrate on the progress of three students at Guy Mallinson’s woodland workshop in Dorset as they spend six weeks grappling with the skills of cleaving, shaving, pole-lathe turning and much more. Their final project was to design and make a greenwood chair and I was asked to join them for their last few days to judge who made the best job of it. It was great fun and I am looking forward to seeing how it comes across on the telly. Do look out for it.

Exidia thuretiana - White Brain - Fungi ???? not saying i know the answer. just questioning.

one of these:thumbup:

exidia thuretiana....white brain?

neobulgaria....known as beech jelly disc

i see got the hump now have ya???? Now we get NO names:confused1:

Banjo banjo the one for you and me, light and crispy wafer a la la la la.....

I reckon both....after all you use the common name for the tree all of the time on here:confused1:

read the post properly Mr Hama!! All labeled and on HORSECHESTNUT! Doh!:001_tt2:

few from today...... Fomes on large dead beech......are the big ones Fomes too? Presume so however never seen them this big. Also Flamulina and Pleurotus on the same Horse Chestnut.

found one down to £4.97 Red Chili Large Logo Chalk Bag - from GO Outdoors.co.uk

Where can you buy these from?

Took the little one down to the park today and couldnt believe what I came across. Last time i was there a few weeks ago there were 10 mature Horse chestnuts lining the car park, with 2 of them just outside the park fence.(by the playgraound) Today...every single one of them felled. Most of the timber had been cleared but a few of the stems were on the ground still awaiting clearance. I looked at these trees just out of interest a little while ago and saw no evidence of bleeding canker except in the largest which also had ganoderma and a few large pieces of deadwood, and on looking at the butt today was worthy of being felled given High Target. The others however were in pretty good nick. Is this a new Local authority policy? Fell mature Horse chestnuts in high target areas on the grounds that one of them is in free fall?

all 3!!!!

common name the velvet shank....edible...no!

ok....cheers for that.

I thought flamulina has brown stalks

Came across this caucasian elm today....it had effectively been monolithed some years ago. Left at a height of about 4 mtrs. A remarkable recovery.

Whats this? Found on felled horse chestnut stem........ On your marks, get set go!! The odds. Hama.....evens MonkeyD...... 2/1

A guide to the 'estimated' life expectancy of trees i think he was after hama....not how to tell the age of a tree.

keep the fungi threads coming i say!

cheers for that Mick.....that will come in VERY handy as there are going to be about 30 very hungry people celebrating a 40th birthday.

Stumbled upon this....thought it may interest you though you may have already seen it. Fungi Of The Heath