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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Interesting image this one, because it is polyporus tuberaster, and a very fine example too. It is distinguished from squamosus by the fact it has a more centralised stipe, rather than the offset one of squamosus. Pucka images guys i love this thread!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Take the humble honey fungus, popular edible in spain, but some people show upset stomachs? and some fungi are edible, then when you add alcahol, hospital is where youll be! Flamulina is edibale, but confusion with funeral bell is more than a possibility!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you guys! lol this books some way off, but you may just have a website to turn to very soon, an industry first, a webiste dedicated to Arb-Mycota, this will be a labour of love, and i hope youll get out of it as much as I have chasing these funny little critters all this time. I am no expert it has to be said but by the time ive finished these projects I might be getting closer to becoming one! and at least a website will be accsesable via your phones on site.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Yes thats my point, this is hard core arb, so edibility is not the subject, it is rott characteristics or Micorrhizal details leaf litter saprobe etc that are needed? think the legal implications of edibility as some poeple react to some others dont, its just too dodgy!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    First ginjer ninja no not at all mate, i seriously just want to make it clear I am no pro and this isnt (unlike some seem to think) an ego trip! this is just cos i love this subject and i can see cleary that people want to know, i only hope I can deliver what they need and will find of use. Second tarrrryan, your spot on with the way I thought of doing it, field guide first, reference second, great minds think alike! Lastly armchair aborist, all good points but being a delibreate abstainer from eating my finds for ecological reasons I really hate to "encourage" removal from the wild. What If I just gave the really common ones edibility and asked that people only take a small portion of what they find? and that species like the desirable (tasty!) but rare to infrequent Volvariella bombycina be left in situ!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    that would do it, the bracken forced it to rise to light, interesting little image my friend, another one logged in the observation banks!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Now i am going to say something here and this is gospel, not bothered about the profit nor the rep, all I want is to help arbs like me who like me want and need a decent reference for this, because I have found this subject the hardest to find information on, and it just needs sorting out so bad, its a disgrace. I spend every minute I get out in the woods, not just cos i love it but literaly doing dectective work and making observations so we can all get some decent real life not so tech lab info, but adding in the tech lab info as well. This info just isnt written anywhere, I know cos Ive tried to hunt it down myself in the interst of learning! fact is we know so little, and that needs sorting out and fast. This isnt an easy project, but I do love a project i can get my teeth into and I am working on it!
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thats a big old birch across the road there!
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Those Xylaria hypoxylons are very unusual, they are never in my experiance so elongated, was there a log close to this one? so that they had to extend towards the light? I reckon they are 5-8 times normal lengths!
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    if you running low on cords drop me a line if you aint too far away, good luck on your new adventure, it aint a bad ol life this one!
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    This site reminds me of what it was like when i first started, we all knew eachother then, so few firms about in each local zone, you always knew what was happening to with others and even turned up to lend a hand when the jobs went pete tong. I sincerely hope i am right in thinking this appears to be what is occuring once more, as for a long time it was a case of trust no one and watch your backs. I hated it.
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i love this site, we are like family, all in it together, all suffering the same fates and experiances, the life and times of an Arborist eah!
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    lol I remember that feeling! tree nightmares before a big job! lol oh that made me smile:biggrin:
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Yes I was thinking along the lines of rot types I.e brown rot white rot, soft rot, simaltaneous, and ability to switch modes, as well as n aggressive rating on certain hosts, like hispidus on ash, rigidiporus on poplar etc
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I love it, a man after my own heart, good luck to you. some lead, others follow.
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Oh yes your on the money! It is highly prized, had it three times in 22 years get somone on here to carve you (and me!) a bowl from a couple of the logs, stunning. gotta love fungi! Good old fistulina hepatica, aint nature great!
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    He was out of order, and will never hold on to good climbers, they never learn! I hope you moved on to bigger and better company:001_smile:
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I've avoided asking this question for fear of being laughed off the forum! I intend to write a book entitled Arb-Mycota a book thats strictly for us arbs, something to fill what is at present a massive void. There are so few books on the subject and I wonder what you think is lacking in the ones you have? If you could ask an author for additional stuff to that currently avaliable what would you ask for? what do you want or need from such a book? Do you want references style books or field portable books with need to know info? Or reference books that cost a firtune and dare not take from the office to the site? Would you be interested in the red data list species for ecology conservation for example? i am genuinely interested in what ALL of you want from a book of this kind. your requests, questions, needs, desires are all apppreciated.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Personaly whoever and whatever reason the jobs gone pete tong I always feel its my responisbility to up the anti and get the job done. I put more pressure on me than anyone, it is my sense of pride, and its stood me well. i know what your saying though, and left my last firm due to the pressure and obvious fatigue results, it was daily. Fatigue is the killer, always watch out for it.
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Logs! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    christ mate thats brown oak!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Dont beat yourself up, my bosses father has been pricing for 60 years hes 83! and he still stuffs us up from time to time! me too, we all make mistakes. secret is.. to learn from them!
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I would have no objections to that whatsoever, what a compliment!
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    try them! thats the flammulina!
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    The velvet shank is edible, and the cultivated form known as nobuki in japan is unrecognisable as it is forced in the dark and grown in jars, this keeps it in a young energy rich form as it seeks the light to fruit fully, they become long and bleached. Highly prized in Japan.

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