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Thanks for comments. I had thought Pleurotus, but it was all wrong for ostreatus and I've never seen dryinus on a conifer. I'll look into it. I had a good look at Entoloma, an interesting group, especially one that parasitises A. mellea

Access to a zip slide. Metalwork has almost sertainly resulted in this trail of O.m.

More interesting than your average Survey Monkey stuff

Quite a tough rubbery fruiting body on an old abrasion wound a tthe base of a rather poorly Abies.

Oudemansiella mucida on Beech, Peebles, Scotland

This might help. FS320008.pdf

Waste of time speculating, the OP seems to be happy that it's Sweet Chestnut, which looks remarkably similar...

I'm going to state the obvious here. These are not leaves, they are seeds. And they look an awful lot like Elm.

The confusion between Sorbus and Malus could be explained by this being Malosorbus florentina. It seems to tick all the boxes. If you still have that fruit you can out it beyond any doubt. Even crabs look like apples inside. Sorbus don't.

Give me a grid reference (8 figure) and I will look up the geology and soils. Waste of time speculating what it can be unless the default solid/drift characteristics of the locale are known. You can use this Grid Reference Finder

That letter form the Council is a bit odd. The Regulations allow for the pruning, in accordance with good horticultural practice, of any tree cultivated for the production of fruit, in a Conservation Area. That doesn't mean you can butcher or remove an apple tree. It might even mean that pruning should have some horticultural objective for that tree, like the removal of diseased parts or the stimulation of fruit-bearing new growth. This semantics stuff ... yes Councils seem to tell people that they need consent, but it's simple. If you serve a 6 week notice correctly and get no reply, you don't have consent, you have statutory immunity from prosecution under the offence of doing unauthorised tree works in a CA. If you get a go-ahead from teh Council within the 6 weeks, or even afterwards, you officially have 'consent'because that's what the legislation says. Soa better word for an unanswered s.211 notice after 6 weeks might be 'authorised', a go-ahead any time after the notice is served might be 'consented' and a reply putting conditions on a go-ahead might be 'b*ll***t'. Yes' authorised is a reasonable word. 'Clear' might do just as well. Or 'allowed' It is authorised by legislation, by parliament. Specifically what is says is - "It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence ... to prove ... that he served notice of his intention to do the act in question ... and that he did the act in question ... after the expiry of the period of six weeks from the date of the notice " That's all there is to it. Call it what you will, you're in the clear but it's not 'consent'. That's for England anyway. I don't know about the rest of the UK except Scotland.

Yep, Guelder Rose, just been looking at it for a planting scheme.

Could be C. macrocarpa

It's a Goat Willow Salix caprea for sure.

Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) "Bark of young stems is green"

I agree about late April. Go as far north west as possible. OK maybe not the bombing practice range at Cape Wrath, but north and west for raw nature and bracing weather. The Assynt area and Torridon are special. East is drier, so are the people. Picturesque, but heaving with people most of whom are trying to sell souvenirs.

You probably would...

After all that's been said, I am still not entirely clear what the objective is. If there is a concern about future damage to your building, hte person you would seek redress from in the first instyance if damage occurs is the owner of the tree. That's the same as the owner of the land. So what you could do is sned a recorded letter to the landowner putting them on notice that you are concerned about the likely effects of the tree, its roots and water uptake, on your building, perhaps mentioning the raw NHBC guidance. Having ut the tree owner on notice, it would be easy to demonstrate foreseeability in a future insurance or civil claim. There are so many other factors in this that I don't think one can say for sure that damage will occur, or when. It would be the tree owner's decision whether to take advice and seek a concession from the LPA to adjust the planting. In turn, if the LPA refuses while knowing of the potential for damage, again future liability will be easier to prove. At that point it will be for whomsoever to juggle 5837 and all the other best-practice documents that should or shouldn't have been taken into account. Stick a copy of the letter with your title deeds. Then you can probably forget about it for a few decades.

Me ma's wellies on Sunday night.

Better known as Carpinus betulus...

It's that simple for me. Arbtalk is populated by both theoretical and practical people, consultants and contractors. I fully understand that renaming a species doesn't change the implications of it being present. It's just an attitude of mind to strive always to be as right as one can be. And I think that deliberately ignoring current nomenclature reflects badly, to some degree. Not being aware of it is a different matter... until we all have some sort of Fungbook account that sends us alerts about new names, it will always take a while to notice thn adopt them. I was reacting to suggestions that taxonomy is a self-justifying system that has nothing to do but torture people with unnecessary name changes. That definitely is not the case. Leylandii? A cross-genuse hybrid, inherently interesting for that reason alone, and bound to be kicked about a bit as a fairly arbritrary nomenclature is settled upon. These freaks (the hybrids, not the taxonomists) are there to provoke debate, and we can learn from that.

Pliable is probably the best word to describe it. It seems the fungus has spread and established radially, treaditionally a strong CODIT defence route. OK I know the tree is dead but 3 shouldm be strong even then... Nice to see anyway, I'd love to hav ebeen able to tae a thin slice off to see what the spread looked like and inch in.

Possibly Leccinum scabrum the Brown Birch Bolete

On felled Elm. 3rd pic is section of bracket, lying on its side.

"My first thoughts are - how is this different from any other chain?" And oddly, no answer...