Tony Croft aka hamadryad

golden rule with leylands, price it add a zero and youll be fine!

Electronic format,mmm it does seem sensible, and ecologicaly sound too. A charge? defo, this will require a lot of time and effort, got to at least cover the tools I need to do this justice! I was thinking rigid and wipe clean ident pages in a bound (spiral) type scenario, for longevity in the field

You have to admire trees, they just dont give up, no matter what trials of life they meet they have the gift of survival. Fire, lightning, hurricanes and snow storms, they stand tall and defiant to the last. This thread is about these warriors, trees not always of great age, but always of immense strength and tenacity. These are the trees I meet, each has a story to tell and i guess seeking them out is a spiritual thing to me, sharing a moment in their time, time which seems to us eternal. Enjoy

Honesty is always the best policy, speak your mind without fear, if they deserved critisism they should get it.

I think youll find thats Lychon or lychen:lol:

Awsome habitat, beautiful place, wish it was local to me:thumbup1:

A few from ashridge today, the light was perfect, awsome low and bright, with air quality high, making my little lumix sing it was! I love this natural pollard. Ent on the move, down but definatley not out for the count! Standing dead, glorious habitat this place. G. applanatum, including nipple galls, first spotting of these at ashridge, happy days as this confirms the australes i think i find up there.

of course, full kit, to replace my old film stuff. A canon D5mkII, a ring flash 100mm macro (sharpest canon lens ever made!) already have a set of very rare auto bellows for the eos system, but crave witha passion a trinocular scope for this set up, spore images oh yeah!

all we seem to get is the nitrogen tolerant species round here:sneaky2: would love to see more species. I am planning to go to the Caladonian at some point, should be some cool lichens up there! take me climbing gear of course.

trametes gibbosa is a pretty dead cert.

Kat1e, if you look at your images of them youll see the younger fruits are orange stemmed, and the mature one with upward turned cap has the typical dark brown to black velvet appreance more typicaly asociated with the species.

"The yellow, flat, flowery one I think is Xanthoria parientina" Quote. you was talking about the lichen wasnt you!

Those orange fungi are flammulina velutipes, lot of it about lately, the velvet shank or winter mushroom, saprophytic. Very common on chestnut too

lol, thats it tell the rouges they should be charging double!

Trametes Gibbosa. Trametes versicolour. first stump broken branch of willow, Daedaleopsis confrogosa whats the first one here, probably Stereum rugosum hard to tell some but you have some Bjerkandera adusta and some stereum hirsutum too!

Yes nice shot of the psuedosclerotial plates dividing up the territory of each mycelium.

Thats a nice clump of Flammulina velutipes.

no doubts about the age! probably a tad older if you ask me! qualitree! Your camera seems fine monkey? whats up.. I will have my D5 for this years birthday present oh yeah, pin sharp and ultra ultra close ups! cant wait, need some more digital storage as well though, massive files!

MMMmmmm Do we all speak swedish! lmao come on xerxses, give us the english version at least!

Well we just got back from Ashridge pk, got me coffee and heatings on! We had a great day and as well as a good find, and a new one for me we spotted perched low in a tree a Buzzard, several chinese water deer, though not perched in a tree! some fallows and the brightest yaffle I have ever seen! Todays fungus, and believe me I worked hard to find one you would be remotley interested in, 4 hrs! but I digress, todays find is Polyporus brumalis. Polyporus brumalis [ATTACH]28619[/ATTACH] A small polypore up to 8cm across, brown witha wavy margin, white underside and white to cream spore print. [ATTACH]28620[/ATTACH] A saprophyte favouring broadleaf logs in contact with soil. An infrequent fungus occuring from autumn to spring sporalating in winter. We also found a few others and my first find/recorded incedent of Ustulina duesta on Acer psuedoplatanus, I was aware it infected Acer platanoides, but have never personaly seen it on Sycamore before. [ATTACH]28621[/ATTACH] The last image is the dash of my car at the moment! Its simply the best place to dry and preserve specimens! just thought I would add it so you can all picture this madman driving about with fungi specimens all over his dash on a daily basis:w00t: [ATTACH]28622[/ATTACH]

Thanks MDvaden, I have wanted to do this ever since i saw star wars! and then reading "the wild trees" just reminded me of why this place is so special. Youve put a lot of time and thought into this, and on behalf of all us redwood fans thank you, its appreciated. Might have to stop procrastinating now! I also want to do the Boreal, taiga, black forest and amazon! Maybe one day i will just sell up and go for it!

How about the lack of significance attatched to Pholiota aurivella? often forming cavities, and can be found high in the canopy of fagus. The lack of details on Perenniporia fraxinea Arbs on here seem to think there is a void, and the void is a book that is practical FOR THEM, not the lab technician etc. There is also a problem when Identifying fungi in the common litreture it is iether based on a purely mycological standpoint and includes as many species as possible, like Jordans encyc or is basic and limited in content and photgraphic information like principles and diagnosis of ill health in trees. NONE of the books will tell you if the fungi you have on your tree is protected by BAP or red data lists, information that is critical to us because we care about this stuff and would like to alter what we do to cater for these endangered and rare species. Then theres the Mycorrhizal fungi, there pressence or lack of can have massive implications in tree health or decline, and with a better understanding we may one day be able to biomanipulate the root zone as a means of protection against the "critical fungi" like armilarria collybia and pholliota.

It isnt that simple though is it tony, there are fungi missing in books, little info on pholiotas effects on trees etc etc etc photos in books bear little resemblance sometimes to those you find and some of the info is not "acurate"

sneaky suspicion the mystery fungus is a clump of forming grifola frondosa!