JonnyVine

Bang on Edd.

Fascinating thread David, loving every minute

I'm not too sure Paul, what about if it makes him chuckle too?

This is an anamorph of psilocybe semilancata, aka the halfwit fungus, we can not rule out melanophyllum haematospermum but these all died out in august so the only point me mentioning it is to show other readers that I am familliar with the mame. Let us look at this anamorph, we can see the membranous velar remnants on the floccose margin making this saprotrophic with campanulate caps and highly fluid active sporulatory, fibrilose appendiculate lameliform with labyrinthine slantingly denate or tiered on perpendicular substrates So what does this tell us if we look at the way the fibers are laying? The tree is becomming "disscontinued"!

Kevin Sorry for the late reply, your diagnosis, as I had fully expected, makes total sense and my reason for asking is that most of the cases of A. laevigatum that I have seen have been on western red Cedar, I have only seen three (confirmed) cases on Yew and that white deposit dosen't look like A. leavigatum from here, although its in the right place? Also, given the amount of "mycelium" present, if it was A. laevigatum it would indicate quite a late stage of colonisation and I would have expected to see a bark dissorder of some description? Loose, dead etc? I have always ascociated A. laevigatum with heavy pruning etc and unfortunately there are no shots of the rest of the tree to confirm this, however, as you mentioned, with all the wet weather and Taxus's sensitivity to waterlogging would stress the tree enough I guess. My Interest is borne of Taxus making up quite a large percentage of the trees on my patch, both old and young so all input regarding the species is of great value to me and it would be nice to have the opportunity to view these trees in person. Once again, I genuinely value your opinion regardless of past disagreements Kevin and I would appreciate anyones views particularly on the alleged mycelium Kind regards Jonny

Jules It would be nice to hear one day that you have been made a member of the Bar! Your narative never fails to impress and I always find myself falling short when I try to emulate it, I guess you either have it, or you don't. How's the weather up there?

Kevin Please don't take this negatively, but it would be beneficial to understand why you think this is A. laevigatum, as all the (Taxus) cases I have seen have had an associated strip canker and although quite common, it rarely kills large portions of the main stem like this. Best wishes Jonny

Some Taxus "bleed" profusely from small fissures and cracks, the exudate is dark red to almost black and I see it quite often, there is a famous tree in Nevern churchyard that people with faith flock to see, the bleeding Yew" and from my iphone it does look rather like quite a build up of this substance. Don't know about the whitish coloured stuff at ground level though

Sorry , I did feel bad after I'd sent it coz the picture made me p**s myself about ten minutes later but Couldn't do anything about it!

Why would I have an issue with you? Strange thoughts

That's Ok, I suppose by now everyone has worked out that you'r a p**** i'm impressed with the determined effort though!

You are wasted on arboriculture my friend. Your talents are far better siuted to politics and spin, imagine if you had been discovered by Tony Blair instead of Tony Croft, you would have been a multi millonare. And job satisfaction to boot!

Only when the weather's bad

From what I have seen of his unusual ammount of posts he is an uneducated bully

Well, he attacks my post with his usual aggressive pettiness but you don't seem interested? Am I not allowed to defend my position? If you had been willing to be neutral in this, then the mature position would have been to realise that in post 15 HE threw down the gauntlet, so everything after is fair game! To "get on" as you suggest, (which I am all in favour of doing) we need maturity in equal ammounts. For me this type of pampering is more akin to a school playground, where the trouble causing little p**** gets his big brothers to sort his s*** out

Is that the best you can do Sloth, his original quote was " suspect its anamorph"! To add any credibility to what you have written he would have had to say, I suspect that P. schwenitzii has two stages of fruiting and this is the anamorph! Every reader and his dog knows the truth here Sloth! Imagine if someone else wrote that s***, he would have been down their throats like a fat old Matron, I have seen this so many times and it makes me want to vomit and it will not stop until the unnecessary pampering stops

I guess you either missed post 15 then, or just chose to omit it? One rule for all eh?

That has cleared nothing up, you have tried to baffle brains with meaningless gobledygook and again state the obvious. My question was, "does Phaeolus Schweinitzii have an anamorph" ?! The answer is very simple, requiring a maximum of ONLY three letters

But you have already given your "professional" advise when you conclude the disease back in post 2! Its only on the last page so go back and have a look! You said it was " Highly Likey" (I'm not going to patronise you as I'm sure you wanted to type "likely") And, " The bark dying past the collar is a Giveaway" How can you expect people to take you seriously with this very UNprofessional behaviour? HW

I think they call it " in rolled wood " in the states Silky, I have a book by Matheny and Clark (well known american writers who I'm sure Treeser is familliar) and this is how they term a ramshorn Jonny

Probably the best answer to come of this thread I can see that quote becomming a sticky

It depends entirely on where its situated, ie, exposure, targets in the vicinity etc

But anamorph suggests that P. schweinitzii has an imperfect or A sexual form of fruiting Tony?

The branch you seem concerned about looks like it is being subjected to a natural shedding process due to having been damaged, meanwhile a perennial canker is forming where the branch collar was, most likely N. ditissima/galligena, this could quite easily be linked with the previous damage. The tree is not an advertisement of health, there appears to be quite a number of weakly attached branches (epicormic) and other parts with damaged bark etc. Dosent look like chalara No panic