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David Humphries

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  1. 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. 

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    Top are Ganoderma species, middle may be old Psuedoinonotus dryadeus and yes would agree on Flammulina species. 

  2. 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. 7 hours ago, treevolution said:

    Can anyone help identify this bracket.

     

    Found about 2m high on a beech tree.

     

    Thanks in advance 

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    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. 

  4. 19 hours ago, openspaceman said:

    They are but it was mean not to annotate them 😉


    I couldn’t be arsed, but just for you 😉

     

    Coral - Magpie inkcap - Nail fungus

    Blewit - half free Morel - Fly agaric

    Dog stinkhorn - Parasitic boletes - Beefsteak

    Scarlet Elfcups - Silky rosegill - Wrinkled peach

     

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  5. 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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