Tony Croft aka hamadryad

Does it matter what I think about it, from a personal perspective? I'm not a contractor, or a firewood merchant or a trainer nor a retailer I'm just a climber, so its just a social place what more could I get from it?

Was a good day:thumbup1:

Just dipping a toe in after a social with 2 arbtalkers in Kew, arbtalk is what it is, a social thing.

The Yew fungi needs a proper look at, dont think dyers, suspect chicken (conifericola) one and the same I had on larch. and that parasitised laccaria is awesome

Saprobic Lycoperdon pyriforme indicating dead wood

heres a shot on my settings!

thought I better put Paul out of his misery!

Neolentinus lepideus on Bishops pine. AKA the train wrecker

Dear friends, the time has come for me to leave, its not something I do gladly the past few days have given me much to think about and mull over but for personal reasons my time on this forum has come to its natural end. Please keep up the good work your all doing, don not lose sight of all the things I have shared with you all, remember the tree is not a singularity, from root hair to leaf it is immersed in all manner of life forms, and it needs nearly all of them to thrive. I regret that I never really even got started on soil, the fungi are but just a portion of it, bacteria, nematodes and many other organisms make up healthy soil communities, so read up and wise up, you will be surprised what you uncover. For all my friends, when you need me, youll find me, it wont be hard, i am a noisy begger! be good, be safe and go well Arb-soldiers:thumbup: Im going to miss this place.

theyve added some new ones since I last looked, awesome

we await in anticipation:thumbup1:

last year was supposed to be a "BBQ SUMMER" lol

i like your style!

and if you had said this to the TO yourself maintaining a good relationship with your local TO's is part and parcel of being in this business. Not taking the time AND EFFORT TO COMMUNICate with TO's is not at all helpful neither to you, your clients or the council

would depend on the cut sizes woud it not, and the TO in this case I would defend given that his only understanding was the wording 30-40% reduction which is not BS 3998 2010 specs and suggests a large defoliation and cut size of a tree that is possibly in view of public (amenity value)

well the guvnor, F Schwarze pers comm, says its a good argument supported by a very recent study! nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Study on Fungi Evolution Answers Questions About Ancient Coal Formation and May Help Advance Future Biofuels Production - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

I was contemplating this and the simple answer is that I can only assume, so here is my pennies worth. youll wish you hadnt asked in a moment or too! Hispidus is a biotroph, of this we can be pretty well certain, and the only time I ever found it on wood that was no longer living it was a panic fruitbody on a recently fallen ash. (Within whippendell woods) Now, Hispidus is the more commonly hosted fungus in ash populations down south, here it is warmer and dryer, move north or west to wales and we find Polyporus the most common of ash colonising polypores of stemwoods. here I think we have a possible colonisation of the column of dysfunction associated with a strip canker created by a hispidus colonisation, the polyporus a secondary coloniser. The question is can poly displace hispidus being a more rapid and necrotrophic parasite? a petri dish awaits another rfungal V's scenario! of one thing I would be very sure of, it is thus, when two principles go to war in the mainstems of hosts it is never good for the mechanics of trees!

OOOOhhh thats interesting, ive never seen Polyporus fruiting from dysfunctional wood within the necroses/hispidus cankers

I did but it wasnt enough obviously i was born this way david, its not a case of frustration!

Whilst carrying out a literature review I came upon this in "Diagnosis and prognosis of the development of wood decay in urban trees" Francis WMR Schwarze 2008 page 158 para 3 "Some authors postulate that wood decay evolved slowly, beginning with the soft-rot fungi from which white rot and subsequently brown rot fungi evolved (Worral et al. 1997) This is at odds with my understanding of the evolutionary progress of the Fifth Kingdom and at the moment do not understand why authors should make such an assumption. In my limited understanding yes soft-rot fungi which origionated in water came first, but surely with 94% of brown rot fungi being limited to the more primitive Gymnopserms this is folly. Angiosperms evolved much later and some authors suggest that white rot evolution was responsible for the prevention of lignified remains and coal creation during the carboniferous period. what say thee?

Awesome, nothing better than stories about mans best friend In my book, got quiet choked in all honesty, might have to get my new beast soon.

good info be safe guys and gals

lol, i would cut somebodies Jacobs off for that!

Well done that man, was going to say the same thing. if it holds your weight its too strong