Tony Croft aka hamadryad

sounds good to me!

was a hard day today but I had spotted a tree in the valley below our work site that had the familiar dense tip growth of Acer campestre AKA the field maple. Nothing unusual you might think in bucks in the chilterns but this tree looked to be as big as a fully mature oak so come lunchtime I found myself feeling the urge for a little Ancient/Veteran tree hunting! I dont know what it is about big old trees and the potential for fungi being hosted but I can be absolutley shattered and suddenly find bags of vroom for a quick bimble when something is screaming "come say hello" at me, I bloody love s it i dos, and I am so glad I did, because not only was this a massive field maple of 2 hugs or 12 feet circumference there was more veteran hedgerow ash trees than you could shake a stick at! I will be going back many times to document the ecologies taking refuge in this little valley, there is so many opportunities for fungi and other wildlife im sure to get some amazing days here. such a cool site, one to get logged for the ancient tree forum too. Enjoy, I certainly did!

My firm wont go out that far but you might try Charles Hey, I do bits and bobs for him and he is a good lad:thumbup1: he is on here as Chzey

the season peaked for flamulina round here weeks if not month or more ago, obviously regions will differ, even from site to site. I wasnt trying to suggest that the gram negative part was anything to do with it being a non fungal entity just added as a extra when I double checked the bacteria as apposed to Diatom like phytopthoras, as for spelling, well cant get anything right where your concerned and that or rather this is the last time youll talk down to me this way without me playing negative a hole too:thumbdown: you make this less than friendly mr edgar, and YOU have the cheek to accuse me of being the bully! lol, your a wally mate, and you aint clever

A most excellent heads up Mr Humphries, havent been keeping up to date with the BMS of late, shame on me, thanks for the kick.

as david said, nice shots too

didnt know it was coming tillit was on top of her! lucky woman! obviously not her time and lots of good Karma!

that is a very fine sample, rare to reach that stage of desiccation intact:thumbup1:

and chestnuts horse, and sycamore norway maple too:thumbup1: never seen it on ailanthus, interesting

a plane, showing the boabab bottle butt phenomina that is as yet of unkown cause as far as i am aware, David has a corker of an example Might not be as old as you think stephen.

Their season is pretty well over, so no, they wouldnt 100% be present at this time, also usualy fruting in late stages of psuedomona when the bark has flaked away and revealed the strip cankers/necroses and they arent all pathogens, maybe with the exception of the Chondrostereum which even then needs a weakened host,hence secondary to Psuedomona a gram negative bacterium(non fungal)

what a great candidate for a hedge pollard!

O.k we need to cover some basics here dont we! No, what your describing now is a lichen, the terms Crustose and resupinate are "forms" not species type If something is shaped a certain way for example if its branching and fine it may be called Foliace, or upright may be fastigiate, scientific terms and latin, take some getting used to, but get used to them. You have a resupinate, crustose fungi

no,this is a crustose fungi:thumbup1:

I feel the trick for the future is a diverse range of methods, all adding to a complete solution, bit of solar, wind bio, hydro and hydrogen:thumbup1:

loose bark also potentially psuedomona, often followed by flamulina velutipes, chondrostereum purpureum and Pluerotus ostreatus as secondaries

thats what i was thinking, great macro:001_cool:

this bodes well, there is going to be a massive boom in forestry and much planting to sustain these moves!

I reckon in time many of these genetic differences will be revealed to be diversification within local populations, host adaptations over millenia. I note Stamets found differences in certain strains of Grifola frondosa, some difficult to culture on media, suspect this is where a few strains have become dependant on living hosts. So fascinating them fungi, I mean imagine giving up your saprotrophic lifestyle/skills to become entirely mycorrhizal, like the Amanitas. If there is a niche, the fungi will find it first!

you might like this in relation too Guy Reishi Mushroom Identification: Hunt for an Herbal Remedy

interesting what is the tree? taxodium/metasequoia?

So, is the second layer of tubes being born as a new layer a particular identifying factor of G australe? Or are some of the other Gano species the same? I have a paper somewhere might take some finding, as I understand it applanatum is on its own in this regard and hence why it is a suitable host for the flat foot fly, though I would confirm this for yourself, i may be wrong, I can be! I've never considered how fungi grow, year to year, so this is all new information. Ergo, in this particular species, as long as food is present, would each tube layer represent a years growth. Annual brackets fade and rot away each year, perennials like fommes and ganos all add new layers till the resources run out. Furthermore, if the bracket stops increasing in size, would that indicate that it had exhausted the available food supply? Pretty much, also some brackets especialy ganoderma australe/rigidiporus ulmarius (Biotrophic) produce sterile conks with no tubes as a panic reproduction when the resources are running out and a sexualy compatible colonization hasn't occurred Could you recommend some literature, websites etc, I really need to expand my understanding of mycology. seek out anything written by Schwarze, Gerrit Jan Keizer but i will come back with some extras later when Ive gone through the hard drive, theres so much in it, could keep you reading for months if not years. the good/usefull stuff can be hard to find, but track it down, theres so much to find on basic internet searches when you know what to search for:thumbup1:

wish i had that much soil to play with! could get some cash crops off it as well as my own produce!

its a SYN:001_rolleyes: you might wanna see G. oregenense too for the redwoods out your neck of the woods, also of the resinaceum lucidum looking persuasion http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/activities/labs-projects/myherb/Documents/profiles/Ganoderma%20curtisii%20Murr.pdf

When it arrives I will do some little videos for you, this ones going to be fun!