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  1. David Humphries
    AA website says it's being presented by Chris Cooper-Abbs and Matt Brooker .
  2. David Humphries
    Link works Have to say that it's a unique but infuriating way to try and get a positive I'd Good effort though Just as I tried to focus on one set of brackets the copter decides to go up or down. Funnily enough we've thought of about this as a way to inspect London planes with Masaria Having doubts about that now I still can't really tell for sure what these are, the profile looks too thin and squashed for the hoof fungus (Fomes fomentarius) so still sticking with the Ganoderma thinking What do you reckon ? .
  3. David Humphries
    I'd lump on that .
  4. David Humphries
    If Corpinus, I wouldn't imagine they play any role in degrading sound structural wood volumes in the stem or the roots. They are probably only there (based on the images showing the location at the base of the tree) on the old dysfunctional roots of the Poplar(s) Saprophytic fungi feed on dead wood. .
  5. David Humphries
    One of the Coprinus species (possibly C. atramentarius) If so, saprophytic feeding on dysfunctional wood. .
  6. David Humphries
    a view from a couple of perspectives across the Burgundian landscape this summer .
  7. David Humphries
    Fistulina on Sweet chestnut..... fruiting at a wound site with aerial roots .
  8. David Humphries
    on the A428 just past the Crick Marina east of J18 of the M1 Nothing to do with my team Joe, (we rarely leave the sanctuary of the M25 ) I just clocked it whilst returning home to Suffolk from a conference near Coventry .
  9. David Humphries
    i think the gutation is a curve ball that may be seen as a shout for Inonotus dryadeus. But i reckon this is Fistulina hepatica - the beef steak .
  10. David Humphries
    A timely removal of a random ash I passed by last week up near Rugby Heavily colinised by Perenipporia fraxinea and leaning toward the road. .
  11. David Humphries
    Did ya catch Samuel L Jackson in there Rhys ? Big fan apparantly .
  12. David Humphries
    are these Ganoderma brackets Kevin ? They look to be fairly high up the trunk. Our standing dead wood populations are visited annualy and are given a tap with a sounding hammer, drill with the PD400 and/or pulled with a tag line to help us monitor the ongoing degradation. For us (I guess I'm meaning me) its more a 'feel' for the residual risk and the need to reduce where/when neccessary, rather than trying to quantify the unknown. I like to believe the statement given at the end of Justice Mackays summing up of the Felbrigg case, (para 43) is in part, the ethos that should be guiding us in how we manage trees. ".....risk assessment in any context is by its very nature liable to be proved wrong by events, especially when as here the process of judging the integrity of a tree is an art not a science, as all agree". .
  13. David Humphries
    reckon so possibly Kretz as it looks fairly ceramic in nature .
  14. David Humphries
    I suspect you've already pondered including type of decay present (brown, white, simultaneous etc) (and/or potentially incoming decay) in the lower section of the tree including the stem, buttresses and upper root crown, as additional elements to consider. Also tree species comes into the equation, (oak & beech being more durable than willow & poplar etc.....) and then regularity of inspection of the deteriorating biomass and any permanent/seasonal change of occupancy. .
  15. David Humphries
    Good to hear Rob, keep on with it Thanks for the update .
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    .....or don't, and sell the property on to vampires who would rather not have access to that annoying bright thing hanging up in the daytime sky .
  18. David Humphries
    Don't believe I have Kevin. Without looking through all the files I think I've only really noted Ganoderma, Daedaleopsis confragosa & Inonotus radiatus associating with Alder. .
  19. David Humphries
    Phaeolus schweinitzii would be my guess .
  20. David Humphries
    Interesting find Kevin .
  21. David Humphries
    Looks just like a hoar frost in the second image .
  22. David Humphries
    Impressive .
  23. David Humphries
    Armillaria tabescens here on oak.... .
  24. David Humphries
    possibly G applanatum then, as its regarded as more saprophytic in nature. .
  25. David Humphries
    Ganoderma (possibly of the applanatum/lipsiense form, but I wouldn't rule out G. adspersum/australe without a spore examination) Is the tree dead or still alive? .

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