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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Guilty as charged! nah not really, i just pretend to be clever!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    So, my statement earlier remains "just how can a crown be showing NO sign of dysfunction when collybia SPECIFICALY eats away at the fleshy system? wind throw is more likely in a less stable soil, but in heavier soils i suspect the failure is rare before death. due to the skeletal remains of the old root system. i dont think collybia can deal with the strong phenols in oak heart wood hence the strategy, and also hence my remarks to the stem rot in the heart rotted trunk posted here .
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    nice bit of Bjerkandera adusta on the oak there monkey!
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I hate to be a pain, im not trying to argue i am interested in your views, as mine differ and one of us may learn something, which is always a good thing, no? i suggest it will be my learning ! In the oaks Ive seen thrown with collybia, the main skeletal structure of the heavy and origional roots remains and it is the fleshy outer material of the large roots and the fleshy fine roots that are riddled decayed and have psuedo sclerotial plating? if not decayed away completley.
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    for the record the other fungi, top Ganoderma australe, (no doubts as its classic form) The third is coprinus disseminatus.
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    nah, if you was being a smart arse you would have also mentioned the granular deposits often left by boring insects as another good indicator!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I do not know how a trees crown can remain completley healthy when its roots are so degraded as to cause throw? i.e merripilus thins the crown before falling, it just cant sustain a full crown on a compromised root system.
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    personaly I love ash, so leave em alone! the bugs favourite fodder, the boring insects i mean, Stags etc
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    All trees produce chemical leach, and hydrocarbons, it isnt just pines and eucs! Tanins from oaks for example.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    IME, spindle shank wouldnt have got up the stem like that. as ive said before, evidance I.e a fungal fruiting body, reqiures 2 compatable mycelium to have gotten into it for a sexual reproduction and "fruiting" to occcur. The fungus could be happily munching away for a decade or more before we have any idea!
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Yep, the big flower is grandiflora, one of my favourites, scent like lemon sorbet some say.
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you had spindle shank yes, but that wasnt working alone, you had a stem rotter there too
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    your unlucky mate, the thing to watch out for is if that swelling spreads, are your viens well up at your arm pit?
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    \the stereum is hirsutum, nothing to worry about, commonest of all, especialy on oak dead wood, and its not going to break down the heart wood much, its left over from having eaten the sapwood. Its a good thing, it will probably help prevent infection by more serious heart decay fungi.
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    sounds like you was having a reaction? also if you got stung at this time of year when the wasps are dormant generaly and not feeding, so the sting, being stomach acid will be concentrated and probably quite severe.
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    This sounds to me like a poor and knee jerk assesment, I havent seen the photos, and dont need to, the mans enqiury is clear consise and sounds about right, to not give cause to concern ourselves with the man not knowing enough about trees to be having a point of view. Collybia fusipes can and does eat away at roots of oaks, and i know it can lead to failure, but the crown would be all but dead before it did fail, and it would probably have been felled long before a failure not for the pressence of the fungi, but because it just looked so poor. it sounds to me that someone short of a little work over emphasised the threat in order to get some work, the tree could have and many oaks do, live with the fungi for many many years, decades and even longer.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Yes it would have spoiled the fun! I had been watching the tree for some time to learn this, and didnt find a satisfactory answer in my books, non conclusive. I am glad to see there is some infor out there that confirms it. thanks guys, hope this was interesting?
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thgis is a great thread, something ive given some thought to as well. Firstly, why not create some pollards? the dysfunctional core will soon hollow out. I personaly prefer wounding the trunk with say a sledge hammer, extreme i know but simulates the damage a trunk does when falling onto others in its path, if a truly natural system is wanted. Also insures the damge is in the larger radius, maybe a good thing. I would also consider using a drill to install some pre inoculated dowels from a ruputable gourmet mushroom supplier. Plurotus ostreatus is a good choice, and is non invasive as well as fast acting. just some food for thought!
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you might find a feature on you dmc that enables you to have the grid lines over the view finder, I have it?
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    that first image of the vertical tree stems, that would have looked even better in infa red, good in mono too, for the bark paterns
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good cameras the lumix dmc's, thats my compact of choice, got the dmc FS15!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Macros (close ups) are a tricky subject, its always best to use a manual focus if you have this feature. with macro shots its a hard call deciding on what to have in sharpest focus and it isnt always the part of the image closest to you. with regards composition, try to imagin a pair of lines, 2 sets dividing the screen verticaly and horizontaly this divides the screen into nine squares or rectangles. as a general rule you should place the prime subject matter on one of the "cross hairs" created thats the rule of the "golden mean" the rule of thirds is say in a landscape, if the sky is the interesting feature fill two thirds of the image with it using these lines, but if the sky is dull, fill the bottom two thirds with the more interesting ground features loving photography myself i thought you might find this usefull?
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    what camera you using?
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Cropped for effect
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    oh i dont know them is good too, the ladscape would have benifitted being composed to the rule of thirds and maybe even in portrait as aposed to landscape format, then the sun could have been placed on the top right line or "golden mean"

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