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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    youlot need to lighten up, aslong as they get the job done and when theres work to be done they are doing it alls good. everyones entitled to a lunch break too, what they do in it aint really down to the boss, if they want to walk off to a chippy, fine.
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I thought this was the best place to fess up to another really bad error I made many many moons ago. I was a naive young mycologist, budding at the time and branded this image about as Piptoporus quercinus, now many moons have gone by and with time served and wisdom gathered I know it is not Piptoporus at all but more likely Inonotus dryadeus. Piptoporus flesh dry's white, not orange to rust, lesson learned. I realise why I made the error, inonotus brackets change a lot as they mature. This one stings a bit! especially as I owe Forest imp an apology:blushing: Hence it will be also added to the Staverton thread
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thickening up nicely, good update:thumbup1:
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I am VERY jealous, wanted that in my bag for years!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    no info but thanks for alerting me to the course!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    oh I cant wait to join in on this party! I imagine a new way, where everyone has a scope and gets into the knitty gritty of it all, imagine one day every arb rather than the odd one or two from each generation starts discovering!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    indeed, its much more productive for learning when the student is guided toward information rather than just given the answers, often quickly forgotten and nothing learned:thumbup1:
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    dont beat yourself up over it, everyones doing their best, you didnt know, and came asking the right questions and found out. no one knows all the answers to everything, whats important, and believe it or not it applies to the best of the best, as long as you know where or how to find the answer thats all that matters.
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    looking at those stains on the lower butt might be worth you looking into Dr Lee Klingers protocol.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    watching with interest, a subject long overdue getting "done" on AT:thumbup1:
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    perhaps a phellinus, but would not rule out gano either
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Hispidus, 100%
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    indeed, microscopes, If you are really interested I will dig out the relevant procedures from a book Ive got and will be going through soon as im all set up, was one of those ridiculously expensive reference books, you know the sort! agreed also:001_smile:
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    some kind of bark proliferation, something disrupting normal tissue development, could be fungal or bacterial, maybe even nematodes, when I have my scopes I will know more about these weird things that nobody seems to have 100% certainty on. basically I have no idea, but I just got funding for my scopes sorted, so maybe soon I can give you a better idea, AND a much closer view of the internal workings of such fascinating features!!
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i can see why you ask, the bark less texture screams oak doesn't it, I think it could well be but I have some recollection of it being either beech or alder, the other two trees ive recorded it on, I think the photo you saw above was shot with this one of a slime mold also in shot, and this was certainly an alder, and a biggun at that, felled timber. second image here on beech if my memory serves me
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    same as that, very much thrown by what at first glance appears as you say to be a white print although I still feel this is I. Cuticularis, I think that white stuff is either a bit of mycelial skin or as with the bit to the lower right in the buttress some kind of white or bleached lichen, is it somerset devon cornwall way at all?
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    hazard a guess at Kretz?
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    top question!
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    lol, child labour huh! good early start, best way,
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    just found this doc on tinternet. http://www.petrospec-technologies.com/Herkommer/knots/FM5-125.pdf
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you need a buddy who climbs?
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    spot on I would say old chap:thumbup1:
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Big old H. chestnut from yesterday, some gnarly cracks and reactions from previous pseudomona (HCBC) infection.
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    the right hand side was difficult, very over extended with little to work to, she is a big girl should be good for the forseable as she is responding well.
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    If it was me and my shout she would get one third of her dimensions thinned out some of the limbs to allow regen inner canopy and come back in 10-15years to reasess crown for further retrenchments, with bi annual inspection of decay/crown condition

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