sean

and my mushroom book... I'm looking at sometime in feb for a field trip to leigh woods.....waiting on some dates from Rob....towards the end though probably....any dates you cant do.?

I will put my name down for a loan after treecreeper if thats ok.?

that looks great mate.

Stunning.....and as it ages it will only get better.

you'd love it mate....robarb's up for a visit so we should get our heads together and sort a date.

A beautiful yew pollard in Leigh woods......still going strong.

cheers guys.

You just invited yourself Rob.....and you very welcome.....I know a very reasonable b and b......Just a fine malt whiskey gets :001_smile:a bed and food.

Lucky?? I'd say he is truly blessed.

Bordering Ashton Court in Bristol is Leigh Woods...with its mix of lapsed pollards, old coppice stools and at its northern edge the dramatic drop into the Avon Gorge it gets a big thumbs up from me. A personal favorite of mine is the big old Yew pollard. Have only visited a couple of times since i moved to Bristol but it has already made its mark on me. Until the end of the nineteenth century the southern part of Leigh Woods was included within the Ashton Court Estate and managed as grazed wood pasture. Paintings and watercolours from the early eighteenth century depicting pollards in wood pasture in Leigh Woods and at the head of Nightingale Valley (Greenacre, 1973, Greenacre & Stoddard, 1986) offer a testimony to the constancy of a landscape which had barely altered since medieval times. In the twentieth century aerial photographs document the felling of a large area of Leigh Woods during the Second World War and the later grubbing-out of a large part of Oak Wood in the 1950s. Although little of this felled area had previously been wood pasture, much of Repton’s designed landscape with its veteran trees was engulfed by the subsequent replantings with non-native tree species (Lovatt, 1989). In 1992.93 197 veteran oaks (lapsed pollards) were surveyed and tagged and restoration work commenced. I am currently making enquiries with a view to researching the management programmes in place and to hopefully document the success/failure rates. Anyway heres some photos to begin building a picture of this fine landscape.

cheers gerrit......7 and 8 intrigued me.....if i can find the time i will go for a revisit and see how it develops.

some from yesterday...... 1... Ganoderma (?) spp growing on this fine old stool. 1(a) as above 2....and 2a. Pleurotus 3...... Laccaria spp (??) 4.....piptoporus 5.....russula spp (possibly??) 6.....no idea (????) 7 and 8....growing out of a cavity in a sorbus (??)

Nice!!.......lucky git.

superb shots mate....

I'm a little dissappointed.....i thought we would have to id all the cheeses....

sicko.

Brilliant programme:thumbup:

Its not gilled on top is it.??????.......i thought this was a close up of the top surface.........

The coloration and the surface texture.......taken that into consideration i then made an educated guess.........nearly jumped in with the fly agaric.....but then deliberated.

shouldnt have got me into this malarkey should ya... I'll pm my address....you'll need it anyway for a visit.

did i win??? I was only thinking yesterday i should get that book.

fistulina?

Watched it....fascinating stuff it was.....in fact i sent Hama a text to tell him to watch it on the night.

I'm sure these would have fitted perfectly in either of these threads but thought they deserved a thread of their own.....especially as i will probably be spending more time in here taking photographs.....it really is a special place. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/15679-nature-fights-back.html http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/26635-life-death-harmony.html Arnos Vale Cemetary...Bristol. A wonderful old wild cemetary with hundreds of self sown Ash literally bursting out of the graves. Some of these have obviously been cut and re-cut over the years to produce some fine old coppice stools. This is a place where life and death sit side by side.

Latin name: Xylaria hypoxylon aka candle snuff fungus......although i believe there are 2 very similar?