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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I used to think the flyagaric was host specific but this year found it on cedar doing amazingly well and no other trees within range, so thats sorted in my head now! Never take anything told to you for granted till you yourself have seen it and proved it for yourself, thats my motto.
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Yes i do remember trying so hard to find some past papers etc, but thats a question you could have asked a friend, rather than openly say to all on a tech cert they are mickey mouse arborists!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    fungus is aminita muscaria, the fly agaric, an ecto mycorrhiza, out of interest was it under birch or larch?
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I will commit to Oxycarpus! be bold
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It is this kind of comment that we could all do without, there will not only be many people who worked hard for that cert, but also remember that is an entry level qualification and a very very good solid grounding in my opinion. when i say entry level i mean after basic stuff. Mickey mouse it is not, and thats a bit unfair to suggest, and is not at all constructive in my opinion. so thumbs down to you sir!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    mmm, that is a matter of opinion, looks like chicken to me, a dry old fruiting body in an oak, whilst it may seem poor for the tree, this tree will become home to many animals via the decay and cavity caused by this fungus. and in some ways the fungus may help the tree lose heavy limbs and assit retrenchment. Without some decay a heavy bow might just rip out in a dissasterous way, all torn and scarred, with a litle rot at its heart it will snap out quite clean, comparitivley speaking. iether way, an oak with a few fungi at its heart is a magnet for life, and i love em as rotten as they come!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Quality post, had to be bumped! It is mental how something you could squish in your hands can lift up a road, seen it many many times and still it amazes me.
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Not armillaria, not a chance, it is a large fan, with a slightly fibrous flesh, this is well washed out though some evidance of an old blackened skin remains, the most important thing to look at from a basic view is wether its gilled or pored and then if gilled or pored what form are the pores? maze like fine or large pores etc.
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I am so glad you asked! that my friend is the drop dead gorgeous volvariella bombycina, a top find and a rare one too, if you see it, record it please, watch out for it on chestnut. note the volva round the base of the stipe, a distinguishing feature of the silky rosegill. ang guys, it is edible but please please dont take them.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    There is a large form of crepidotus, a white form. As for links to images via the web, i dont even trust my txt books anymore! believe me theres a lot left wanting in a good few images being punted around, its the photographers not the authors
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    lol, i wouldnt mind if you did laugh! It is Bassidium, no doubt, this is an unusual shape for it, but have seen it and many forms of fungi display a full circular fan when on surface roots. The close air contact makes it fruit on these areas and I have a great one of the oyster coming off a surface root at kew, most untypical of the species shapewise
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    perenniporia fraxinea
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Just so you know, perreniporia should be a consitant colour through out, hence fraxinea as in like ash wood, same colour through. rigidiporus will have distinct changes in colour and I am certain it is not this, Please also shoot the wood at stum level as i am VERY interested in the rot characteristics of perreniporia fraxinea, very few records of it so do let us help you get a good ident.
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    That beech was in certain need of a little help, it was very due a collapse, and one that would have rendered it a fell in the case of one of the three tearing out. I agree the stem to the right, it will go mad and compete and extend the lever arm and increase the loading. I wasnt going to say so, because overall that job, though not perfect was in my view not only justified but done with care and consideration to the forest flora and fauna, i.e dead wood saprotrophs. Top draw guys, your well on the right path.
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Grifola! not a snowballs chance past the firey gates ! merip, mmmm a possible but unlikley in my mind never ever seen it on anything other than oak and beech
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Squamosus is as good a giude as I can get you on this photo, sorry fella.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    with regards to population, it is without doubt our biggest issue, but knowing how nature works, and she is a superb leveller. When it really becomes too much, a viral plague will descend and eliminate an awfull lot of us! and balance will be restored, grim but so true, and in this global economy we will spread it like wild fire.
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Not wishing to be rude but seriously! I am good, but this is a sh.... example! can you get the underside? i would hazard a guess at Polyporus squamosus but and this is a massive but, is it gilled, pored. is it fibrous in texture? i looks as though it is. Guys we really must start doing these shots with a bit of the underside and a big help a open view of some split flesh
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Could you cut into the flesh and tell me is it uniform in colour or not? It has to be iether perenniporia fraxinea/oxycarpus populinus I dont like the description of the blue purple tones though, and doubt it could be rigidiporus ulmarius
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    monkeyd bang on,safe to climb but not to do any heavy rigging! get it done, swift why not leave a monolith? beech is good fodder for grubs and beasties?
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Pholiota Squarosa after heavy rain has washed off the scales, can you get a pic of the stipe? for clarity
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    the austria rocks, after 22 years in the saddle this ones a gem
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Its funny cos I came a cross the exact same form on a dead birch root yesterday, I will put a good wager on this ID, the foresters favourite root rotter
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Well it is a difficult call, photos make it tricky, and laugh at will but it looks a bit heterobasidion to me
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    lol I am still here! i get carried away with this stuff, it consumes me, like a rampant mycelial infection its got me! but its a fine rot and I intend to spread the infection far and wide!

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