Tony Croft aka hamadryad

would you be willing to send a sample of the wood directly behind the fruit body to Lynne at cardiff Uni?

http://www.fern.org/sites/fern.org/files/Nhambita_internet.pdf

http://www.treeworks.co.uk/downloads/NF_morpology-Raimbault_updated_2011-05-18.pdf

Megafauna Foundation

whats he asking for it?

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you getting all fung on us Guy! lol great examples and shots:thumbup1:

and mine. takes a lot of energy to fruit, think of mast years in trees. not a lot of nitrogn in wood, but LOTS in fruitbodies so lots of wood needed to fruit.

harmless

Imay be thinking of another plant:blushing:

We have the big ones and we love them, the small six foot versions would be a great bonus addition

I had the same issues, turned out to be pigeons (wood) they went in the freezer too:lol: tit for tat i say:biggrin:

no worries, looking at the soil its a wonder the grass aint dying too!

just so happens ive been pulling mine off the new tree this evening!

little aphids open the curled leaf amd find a hoard inside!

root damage and dessication leading to secondary issues like bark scorching and armillaria attack

the black stain is almost (i said almost) certainly bacterial wetwood, bet it stank, and doubt it was forseable IMO

only from memory I seem to remember reading this parasitic plant hosts on the Armillaria sp, I might even have the article somewhere. Very coool shot, one i would not mind having a go at myself:001_cool: and thanks for the comment:thumbup:

next month maybe a bit early for the best of it?

good job steve, best restoration one could have achieved given the prior mess

closeups of the soil in various places around the tree, some really wide shots to give the entire scene from several angles, and any knowledge youcan glean about history of site, recent works, gas mains etc, thinning of tree populations etc:thumbup:

To say I've had an awesome few days (6 days leave) is an understatement! Tuesday spent the day in the garden, wednesday off to Knepp and thursday to Ashtead Common as part of the two day summer meeting of the Ancient tree forum. Thursday night off to Andrew Cowans as we was off to Ireland to buy a landy, plane over, ferry back. Came in on Anglesey and drove through Snowdonia, down to Croft Castle In Herefordshire, then a stop over at Frishden Beeches to show Andrew laetiporus on Beech. I missed the failure only days before of one of my study trees, the Laetiporus was not in its prime but glad to have caught it. Im geting very close to starting the real work of putting my first book together now, was just waiting till certain things had fallen into place, so a few magazine articles will start coming through from me to build up some prior momentum PR wise. And I am very, very nearly ready to formulate, finalise the plan and method for a PHD on heart rot fungi, as a part time student it will be a grand a year but I've craved it for so long and now im close to really having this one sorted. I've been a little quiet of late because of all this planning and organising, busy planning what I've been practicing for so long, I could not be more content or fulfilled as I am of late. I have worked so very very hard to get to this time this stuff is what I was born to do!

too limited a set of images/data

let it stand as is