Tony Croft aka hamadryad

Its a very well known tree, whos going to tell me where it is! first shot the tree, second a fungus on another close by to give a clue to the location......

They are both banks, run by bankers, they dont do you ANY favours!

My artwork may be inadequate but you cant take my photography to task, this illustrates the (vascular pathways) and thanks for making me hunt for this photo, its remined me of a little project i should be working on!

I wont use the "channel" word again! but you understood see highlighted, but will add the valleys may be gone by decay, leaving strips of living tissue, or vascular pathways over an entirely decayed stem maybe totally cavitated

lots of dead cambium on the main stem, looks like honey as a secondary, could have been but rotting that oak for decades till it went parasite on the cambium. would also explain the nice psuedosclerotial plating in the cavity, wulndt see that with Inonotus dryadeus just a sharp cone

I've learned it goes with the territory, the more you shine the more they try to dim your light, its O.k, skin like leather, I always come back:biggrin:

yes, I will do a MK II:thumbup1:

yes, because its important to me:001_smile: and I take being called a Moron very seriously, well I do when its driven home with a sledgehammer and then elaborated on, just to be sure I am in no confusion as to the opinion being given! lmao:lol:

thats a neat bit of work that, bet it took a lot of time and thinking about, good post:thumbup1:

the first brackets difficult to say, could even be heterobassidion annosum, slightly red upper off white thin lower, probaly a gano though, just speculation. second trametes versicolour immature hence yellowish

agree with all here, and they have shrunk them a bit too, the Pantins, and I kind of like it even more now.

Thomas, ignore the ribbing, its an arb thing! nice post and thanks for sharing, any clues as to the fungal entity? Inonotus or G. resinaceum by chance>

Im going to just stock up on 150s if the truth is a ban!

and who rattled your flippin cage! so what, now ive gotta upgrade my drawing skills too! you lot is never satisfied:thumbup:

you can add Armillaria to the list too! she is doing remarkably well, a nice veteran tree, lost some crown and is a close grown forest tree, probably last longer than we might assume? time will tell, and youll be sure to see here at some time in the future:thumbup1:

ha ha ha they really do know how to stimulate panic buying!

Having had a peak on AIE no, that one was on Fagus sylvatica in whippendell woods, fagus is another common host species. heres another couple of the same tree/fungi, the tree still stands. these images where shot august 2009

I try so bloomin hard to be helpful, it bugs the hell out of me when I mess that up! as you can tell no doubt!

happy birthday fella, and will everyone stop having birthdays, were getting old!

oh shut it:lol:

Im still trying to find some images, you know the trouble I had, seems like ages go by then I remember shots and cant find em:thumbdown: heres one of the canopy, woodeckers in the usual hispidus spots so bats also potential especialy given the location, suit Daubentons down to the ground:001_cool: the last shot in these three shows the decline in canopy during the period of panic fruiting, was interesting to record it all:thumbup1: I dont know, its been ages since I logged in to AIE:blushing:

I have used a term many times on forum, that term is "discontinuation" referring to the stem or lower butt of a tree becoming "fluted" also using the term "channels" to elaborate/picture the situation. After a severe beating over the matter, I had been looking for a better term to describe exactly what I was meaning. So, having the new veteran tree guide to management to read over the last month here goes! The first image is the "normal" tree second image is the tree with what I previously termed a "discontinued trunk, some say fluted but thats not as extreme, more an earlier stage of the development of what i was terming "discontinuation" lastly, the third shot shows a stumpy pollard and a pollard with sap risers also the what i previously called channels in pink I shall now from here in use the term "uninterrupted vascular pathways" in accordance with the guide book edited by dr lonsdale. The fluting in pic 2 now "vascular pathways" Apologies for any confusion, or worse:blushing:

So, the old girl finally gave up her grip on the earth today, an ash ive been watching for around 3-4 years or so with heavy Perenniporia brackets to one side origionaley, then it appeared to have a panic fruiting at all root crevices in 2011. i had felt at the time pretty certain this would be the ultimate outcome, panic fruiting confirmed. I had been reserving judgment on the potential of this fungi till I had really enough personal experience to go on, IME this one, certainly on ash needs careful consideration when retention is desired. Would really like to get down there over the weekend and get a core sample from the root crown/lower butt, will keep you posted on that also. Jan 2010 Panic fruiting commencing july 2011

Going on the condition of the bark and the obvious potential for the dysfunctional parts to coelesce i would say this tree will probably (not certainly) go into decline if it hasnt already

when you say Lonsdale agrees are you referring to a recent communication (Pers comm) or the book Principles of hazard assessment? and dont think Pathogen is appropriate, certainly not from either of the Davids, find it hard to believe either would use the term in this context (F. velutipes. Its saprophytic, hence fruiting from exposed ripewood/deadwood particularly in Aesculous infected by psuedomona (Bleeding horse chestnut canker) more details on the type of decay etc will be found in stamets and/or japanese medicinal mushroom research, this fungi is highly regarded. Its not so much that little is known, its that less is known in fungi phobic victorian minded England:001_smile: as sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it,"The fields were spotted with monstrous fungi of a size and color never matched before - scarlet and mauve and liver and black. It was as though the sick earth had burst into foul pustules; mildew and lichen mottled the walls, and with that filthy crop, Death sprang also from the water-soaked earth." over to jonny.....