Tony Croft aka hamadryad

For Elicokiz and also for treeseer from a very long time ago comment regarding my suggestion that rhizomorphs are not always present during Armillaria sp attacks. Extract from MushroomExpert.Com Description: Ecology: Parasitic and/or saprobic on hardwood roots, especially those of oaks. I have examined trees attacked by Armillaria tabescens several times, and have never found the black rhizomorphs characteristic of Armillaria mellea in wood or bark above ground. Armillaria tabescens, as I have seen it, fruits directly from roots and rootlets, attached to them with white mycelial fuzz. The mushrooms typically appear in large clusters at the bases of hardwoods (especially oaks and silver maple), or appearing to be terrestrial but actually growing from hidden wood; late summer and fall; east of the Rocky Mountains.

Or just go to visit regular and observe and learn about the slow mechanics:001_cool:

A three day job four Macocapas one Scots and an ash to fell and grind, one macro stayed after a 25% reduction of hieght too tired to bother with photos at the end! was a mental three days 9 loads and I came down with the Flu lunchtime yesterday. We have a new toy though so made it bearable, just other than the pouring rain monday, oh the glamour of it all:lol:

the bark is de-laminating like paint on a fibre glass pole being bent because Sparassis crispa is hollowing out the butt, and increasing the loading on the outer wood cylinder. This is particularly prone as there appears to be a union above the Butt and also several old wounds from a lifting of the canopy some time ago.

Thats a cracking tree sean, loving that first Monochrome too, awesome:001_cool: Heres one from last week, put her on the ATF hope you did yours too:thumbup1:

I would miss the little gems nature offers me because im there everyday, and 1 day in 50 are just priceless

I cant find refrerence to a hairy puff ball of that size, are you sure its nota witches egg forming?

not mosaic, also looks like pratense to a degree, give me a moment

Ive seen horrible damages done to cambium of retained trees and root damages from falling timber in the woodland (careless) scenario

Absolutely:thumbup1:

sounds good, lets wait and see whether defra who originally said an import ban was in breach of EU trade agrrements/illegal, actually does anything about the importation of trees and their associated pathogens.

Epping Forest was in a particularly soul full mood yesterday-

tidy job that fella, nice and natural:thumbup1:

sorted

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That was my first thought being a cluster but even at long range one can define the pores of Daedalea quercina, hard to say with any level of authority given the image quality was a good shout though

classic, and beautiful. They will last a long time.

Remember too that these new confirmed sites are most likely long been infected its the new emphasis on survey and quantifying the spread thats finding all these new sites. a year or two down the line will reveal the true nature of this problem. I wouldnt be expecting to contain it now, that is futile, more damage will be done trying to do just that. As for injecting trees to kill all fungal entities within the tree this is akin to chemo in humans, the latent endophytic fungi already present in the tree and the trees own kind of defence mechanism.

were talking about an emerging fraction of ecology, and things that go under the visual radar are often not easy to get the money to work on! Theres a few of these, the red stropharia that came from australia too that is thriving in mulch beds, but have seen this happily co habiting with Coprinus lagopus. I wouldnt be panicked by new arrivals of fungi of the saprotrophic nature, I dont like it but were going to have to get used to climate changes and as a result, species changes. would be good to get a handle on it sooner rather than later though as soon we wont know whats natural and what isnt!

I met a woman today very concerend that she might lose her three ash one a magnificent specimen, and all the public ive spoken to bring it up with me without me saying a word! There is a lot of concern, but also a lot of happy folk that thier trees with TPOS etc will die, especially neighbors who have loathed a tree over the fence for years. People havent a bloody clue what value trees have to their lives.

A certain company is going to make a KILLING from this treatment. And they will finally win in bringing the chemical/injection business and american style approach to the U.K

oh god no no no whats this all about, anyone got a link to info, please,please please found it Ash dieback: government urged to fast-track trials of 'cure' | ash dieback News | The Week UK this is a poor idea IMO

and what was Dr Percivals comments? I missed this sadly

one for the data Rob!

Had an amazing day today, fungi everywhere in the plot we was working on. What really surprised me was the number of fungi in a young overgrown Norway spruce wood which was intended as christmas trees many years ago but when the silver (Nordmans) came in the market wasnt there and these grew on. I've never paid much attention to such woodlands, always sticking to my Ancient woods of mixed deciduous mainly Oak and beech types. I will remain more open minded in future. The number and size of the Wood Blewitts (Lepista nuda) was remarkable, many many hundreds of trooping ring formed groups, also similar clitocybe nebularis (Cloudy funnels) a few Shaggy parasols (macrolepiota rhacodes) a very pretty species of Mycena which I havent identified as yet and the Red funnellike Lepist inversa. Plenty of P. squarosus amoung the aspens, poplars and apples in the orchard too, some Pleurotus dryinus on the scared Poplars, great day all in. the fungi have come late, and come in force!