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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Would you go as far as Essex?
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    sometimes even the mellea can appear to have no annulus, they can get soggy and hang down sticking to the stipe, seen this a few times but look close and you can peel it away again. Wouldnt be at all surprised by melleas or any armillarias up the trunk, the books dont have all the answers, i got chrysenteron on deadwood recently! (mycorrhizae)
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I would bet it is Igniarius:thumbup1:
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    as this is directly addressed I shall leave it for the man.
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Too short notice for me but was right on my door step! Are you a local firm?
  6. 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.
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Or just go to visit regular and observe and learn about the slow mechanics:001_cool:
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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:
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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:
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I would miss the little gems nature offers me because im there everyday, and 1 day in 50 are just priceless
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I cant find refrerence to a hairy puff ball of that size, are you sure its nota witches egg forming?
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    not mosaic, also looks like pratense to a degree, give me a moment
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ive seen horrible damages done to cambium of retained trees and root damages from falling timber in the woodland (careless) scenario
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Absolutely:thumbup1:
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Epping Forest was in a particularly soul full mood yesterday-
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    tidy job that fella, nice and natural:thumbup1:
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    sorted
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    all icons not displaying and cant download images?
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    classic, and beautiful. They will last a long time.
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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.
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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!
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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.

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