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Posts posted by David Humphries
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2 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:
Perfectly captured David.
That’s Mick Stockbridge on the horse.
I think he's the one on top of the beast thinking that he's gonna need a bigger saw !
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On 05/02/2024 at 20:33, CTTree said:
Evening all
I was hoping someone could be kind enough to offer some opinions on ID?
The top pair I believe to be some sort of Fomes but am struggling?
The middle pair are located on an oak, with fruiting bodies much of the way round the butt, all coming out from in between the buttresses. Does the location indicate decay of the butt/ lower stem heartwood and a lack of in the buttresses? Perhaps Ganoderma adspersum?
The bottom I believe are Flammulina velutipes, I just thought they looked nice so would share them.
Top are Ganoderma species, middle may be old Psuedoinonotus dryadeus and yes would agree on Flammulina species.
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3 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:
Of course, but if the oak dies they’ll cop it anyway won’t they?
I know they could relocate, but if OPM really gets a grip they won’t have anywhere to relocate to?
In my experience Mark, managing it in a population of 7,000-10,000 oak trees in north London where we have had the ‘pest’ for the last 9 years, OPM doesn’t kill (healthy) oak trees.Birds, bats and specialist tachinid flies are naturally controlling the ‘pest’
They caterpillars do ofcourse cause rashes, but mostly to the people who are surveying the trees and removing the nests.
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3 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:
Why on earth would you not get it sprayed?
One reason is that spraying will kill indigenous Lepidoptera (butterflies/moths) that specifically associate with oak.
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Great share Mick 😎
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7 hours ago, treevolution said:
That’s likely to be Fomes fomentarius but need’s more images to be certain. Ideally when you’re trying to get an ID you need to present images of the top surface as well as the underside and where possible a slice/wedge of the flesh/trama from inside the bracket showing the colour and texture.
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I think this is a perennial bracket and likely to be a Ganoderma species. Although the images aren’t very clear the pores on the underside look too small for Cerioporus squamosus.
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12 hours ago, CTTree said:
Fungal beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 😄
I think these are funnel caps, either trouping or clouded,
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Might be Perenniporia fraxinea, we have that association at work on a number of Robinia.
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Defo Fistulina, often see them at height like this
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Looks like Ganoderma pfeifferi
try scratching the surface, if it leaves behind a yellow waxy substance, then that’s the clincher.
common name is the bees wax bracket
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30 minutes ago, slack ma girdle said:
It was growing at the base of a sycamore in amongst the Ivy. I wouldn't have seen it had i not been checking the base of the tree.
with deciduous trees more likely to be Laccaria amethystea as entoloma sp are found with coniferous.
They can look very similar and the same gill arrangement, the main difference is spore colour Laccaria is white Entoloma is brownish/pink
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Posted · Edited by David Humphries
I’d say it somewhat depends on the LA and what you do with that job opportunity.