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  1. David Humphries
    The iPad will allow multiple image uploads if you use the Arbtalk app. Not too many Amanita's fruiting in the woods I frequent in and around London.......yet Well rubescens and phalloides are, but not muscaria. .
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    Any images? Ring (or not) on stem? Not just Macrolepiota procera? .
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    Not saying it shouldn't be removed Matt, but intrigued as to whether any exploratory work had been carried out to determine the extent of decay in the root crown (as well as the sounding and Picus assessment) ? .
  4. David Humphries
    Good find Kevin .
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    I would think they are a good bet for Agrocybe cylindracea .
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    Cool, thanks for letting us know Happy hunting ! Do you know if the oak is still standing Glen? .
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    Hi Leigh, bit difficult without a bit more of a close up from my perspective. predominantly on coniferous, Heterobasidion does associate with broadleafs. Birch, maple, alder & beech to name but a few of the hosts listed in the FRBDI pages (4077 records ) regarding Heterobasidion annosum .
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    Mod fung Liam Gallagher/Nicole Appleton's gaff & gratuitous clump of the fung ! .
  9. David Humphries
    multiple resources is always a prudent way to look at these things .
  10. David Humphries
    Here's an ever growing list of Meripilus and it's associations. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/49997-meripilus-giganteus-giant-polypore-its-host-range.html .
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    Pretty low risk, but the root flare will 'turn to mush' at some point, and a height reduction (meter or two) would reduce what risk there is and keep it standing for longer. .
  13. David Humphries
    'If' C. dryophila, then I've read that it is saprophytic. .
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    Bioluminescence .
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    Griffola frondosa, Ganoderma applanatum & Collybia fusipes here on this oak root crown .
  16. David Humphries
    beast of a tree ! second last shot Reg, spike marks next to the lightning damage or bird pecks? .
  17. David Humphries
    second last shot Reg, spike marks next to the lightning damage or bird pecks? .
  18. David Humphries
    love the last shot Nice work .
  19. David Humphries
    a beech that we originally reduced down to a monolith about 8 years ago is now heavily infected by Meripilus giganteus. We'll be keeping a good eye on the stability before deciding on whether it requires further reduction due to the adjacent path. .
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    although its been dead for a couple of years its still solid enough at the base to be able to leave as standing dead wood for a few years yet. we were careful to leave the self set lime sapling intact to let it take the place of the willow. .
  21. David Humphries
    we removed just over half the height and left the finish coronetted & fractured. .
  22. David Humphries
    5 years on from the start of this thread and we've been back in the same vincinity, this time monolithing another dead willow which can be seen alive in the background of the first image from back in '09. .
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    Heavy fruiting ! Taking it down Glen? .
  24. David Humphries
    Great context shot Tom The designed landscape aspect is interesting. There's plenty of historical reference (oil paintings) that show dead standing trees in similar landscape situations, which are believed to have had something of a land owning status attached to them. Though I guess they would of been in them as much for their asthetics qualities. .
  25. David Humphries
    A good and relevant point, and one that I wholeheartedly agree with & tried to convey in an article I penned in the current issue of the AA Magazine. This is where public & private tree owners alike require education but also the context of the situation should be balanced against the safety aspect of the targets around it against the quantity and quality of local standing deadwood available. Not every dead tree should be retained at all cost as that's just impractical, but a healthier respect and understanding for the importance of habitat is where we should all be moving towards. .

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