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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Allowing oneself to believe in the hype could lead to all kinds of bother, and can only dissapoint others! much better to play it down!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thought i would do a spot of tree recording for the Ancient tree hunt ( The Woodland Trust | Take part in the Ancient Tree Hunt with the Woodland Trust )tonight on my way home logged four 5metre plus Oaks one of those hosting Podacypha multizonatta a U.K and European BAP priority species. On my way to one of the trees, the largest @5.80 metres circumfernce or 185cm DBH I got a shot of a nice ganoderma resinaceum on Hornbeam on the Historic Haberdashers aske boys school grounds. and a little Inonotus dryadeus and a nice Agaricus augustus aka the prince:thumbup: few other bits and bobs and a few teasers for rob to identify later on! this one will vex him so! i can almost sense him sweating! So Mr Grimes, Love child of mr Lofthouse, what do you make of the tree photos at the end here!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Im just a playing with ya, you know me! cant resist a banter.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I wouldnt go that far, I am WAYYYYYYYY overated:biggrin:
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    If I had known in advance mate I would have arranged things different, im off to Salisbury sat but would have come and got you and done the fri sat, just let me know next time you nut case!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    after all the effort I went to and you come up with this! man should be ashamed of yourself!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    woodland is always changing, what mix of species do you have?
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Right then! My guesses Its been a long wet summer, good season for the old snails and slugs! They climb trees to eat the algea on the bark, if the weather turns dry they find a stone or other smooth surface and suck down and seal their shells shut to conserve moisture, if no rain comes they dessicate and die in that state
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    if its a young tree and you have others I think I might be inclined also to fell it for a bit of firewood and kee the contamination risk low.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    they loves it
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Interesting, certainly shows the root channels nicely. a few questions that spring to mind, purely out of curiosity So did you try to work out the area of the shear root ball and check for the presence of roots out to the area? what about the depth, and the areas suggested in the force cone model (mattheck) zones for presence of roots? is there going to be any re modelling of the crown?
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    and they will be fine trees that grow well:thumbup1:
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Nice one David, lovely soil, lovely beasties and nice roots fine and ramified and at depth:beerchug:
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    as no one else noticed! CONGRATULATIONS! and Steve et al, see you friday:thumbup1:
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    is spongipelis felted? you may be right having looked closer the pores are not like aurantiporus
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Soils & Biodiversity by Dr James Merryweather | Save Our Woods In one acre of a typical British woodland system there are: • 110 tons of trees • 1 lb of birds • 21 lb of large animals • ½ ton of plants • 1½ tons of fungi • 4½ lb of small mammals • 500 lb of earthworms • 9 lb of beetles • 50 lb of spiders • 90 lb of slugs & snails • 4 tons of bacteria • 340 lb of protozoa M. Allaby
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I know Rackams calibre, but NO, im not buying it not one bit. going to take this one to task for myself.
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Unusual in a garden setting IME, on a young tree suspect its far worse than on an older tree with more surface area.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    aurantiporus fissilis
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    soundslike a slme mold probably felugio septica 'candida'
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    interesting to see the decline from one year to the next!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    A couple of recent ones
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    mmmm, interesting, Im going to have a read tonight and see if my overly dismissive view is in need of a review. prsonaly I see it as a sporadic outbreak phenomina, and not like a constant battering as would be implied to cause radical changes in a trees ecological niche, and Oak IS a pioneer it cant stand climax forest! regen is at the forest edges not within, we all can go out and see this.
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    its not just the merip David, the rootstock should be more vigorous and thicker than the upper (scion) there appears to be Pluerotus present also? if you can maintain the chanells it will be viable with retrenchments and structural modifications. but it is in a lot of bovver guvnor!
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    the beech is goosed

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