Tony Croft aka hamadryad

'Phytophora....a microbial monster on the rampage? I too was going to suggest subscription to the forestry journal, and with some digging youll find much on pathology online, with many U.S sites having some very good stuff, also there are at least two sites that sell research docs online, i will try to dig out some links when i get a bit more time. if you dont get them within a week in this thread PM me.

if it was me, and this represents a great oportunity, i would go with ash oak beech and hazel, great habitat fantastic fire wood and leave the soil well alone! Scraping of the top layer! what you like!

great stuff monkeyed, i have always fancied doing a big owl oportunity in a big old stump, would be trickey but well worth it, how about cutting 45 degree slits one on top of the other into a trunk to create a little slim hidey hole for bats?

I would say G australe, but its high, and has some orange tones.

i will also add, membership and progression within its system is what we proffesionals subscribe to in order not only to support the many areas the AA try to advance assist etc but to prove a continual and sustained program of personal and proffesional development. Wether you agree with much of what the organisation does or is, excluding yourself hurts you and the idustry. get involved or you have no basis for an opinion, am i wrong?

It seems to me that this reqiures input from some big guns from the acedemic fraternity, though if i was one of them having seen the mickey mouse type remarks i would feel less than enthusiastic. I will say this, I have worked on projects that where assesed and advised, planned out by "consultants" on a great deal more money than I, I know from personel and repeated example that qualifications do not make you an "expert" i am doing my degree at the moment, learning a great deal too, but i do not see why i have to waste my very limited time and resources going of utilities or nursery practice at this stage of my game? if I was going to change anything it would be to ensure that each level of cert is not in any way shape or form or elemts reapeated in the one below. If you want to advance and study a specialist subject within arboriculture and gain a bachelors why study principles and nursery practice? im going to be nowhere near those areas! that to me is a waste. God the spelling and gramma is awful! i must type with less emotion and speed! I think maybe we need to see a shake up to match the many arboriculture areas of study. some want to go to forestry, others the production and nursery, me i am a man of fungi, ecology and ancient veteran trees. if you think we have it bad in arboriculture, just try getting into mycology, now theres a subject youll find hard to study, there is no route!

dont apologise, just go back and get a better image! Im going to have to go through my books to be certain, I have a sneaky suspicion this is something different to your average G or bracket. got an arb exam today but will have a good sort through later and tell you what i think this is

thats a quality lens, and all you need is some manual focus and youll be producing some very very sweet deep clean well saturated images my dear fellow. try to focus on the near edge of the fungi's rim or at the joint between stem/stipe and cap, where it meets the gills.

funny cos i was thinking the same darn thing, look at the biggest of the group, its a bit split! looks puffy to me!

good question, try asking Andy hirons at Myersouch

oh such sweet words in my ears, stags and newts, deadwood, im having hot flushes! PS guys, stags love ash much more even than oak, if you need to create some log piles for them i would opt for this over anything else. Do the "experts" still claim the stag doesnt feed as an adult? or has anyone done some proper research into thier real life cycles

it really isnt suprising that fungi are so globaly spread as they are spores to begin with, if you sweep the air with a net 30 thou feet up youll catch tiny spiders so aint an issue getting a spore across continents! did you notice the crack lateral forming in the old beech pollard with fommes? shame, soon be over. You and me is going to have to meet up for a foray next year for certain

and only a tree surgeon would go on to prove my point after saying that!

go to advanced mode, and use the icon with the paperclip above the image icon

very very nice, a kindrid spirit, big up the monkeyd,

lol, so sensitive, are you sure your an arb!

lol, tree surgeons! youllnever have a straight conversation with a tree nut!

sorry monkeyd, wasnt paying attention! lol

mmm I think you stood still under an ancient tree just long enough for a mycelium to sneak up your trouser leg, you lost to us now, welcome to the darkside!

Its all about taxes, always is, wars are so lame people dont pay any attention now, so they have to get us to cough up with another frightener!

Awsome, thats going to be hooching with life, ironic really, so much life in a dead old tree!

kAT1e, if you are really interested there is another site that has people far more qualified than any of us in here to help you on this mycological journey. It is called Wild about britain or WAB for short, google it. You will find a section dedicated to fungi there and a few of the guys and girls in there will help you along the way, if you see ditiola, lancashire lad, mr yeates, and a few others these guys are top draw on some of the extreme ends of the subject, if its tiny mr yeates is your man! Fungi will if you look into it grab you with a force far greater than you could imagine, it is a deep and complex subject that will chalenge you all your life and i hope you do get into it, there are so few of us fungi fanatics about!

without the gills it is impossible, stipe form and attachment to cap, base of stipe bulbous etc all need to be there to make certain of iD there are just too many little fungi growing in grass to say without the right data