David Humphries
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I'd say the last set of tiered brackets are Ganoderma applanatum/lipsiense due in part to their thin lipped morphology. But to determine for sure the use of a microscope on the spore would be required.
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What is this dark side you speak of? Would the great Victor Frankenstein have been able to create his monster without first having dissected & dismembered an army of corpses? .
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Last two shots may be desiccated Phaeolus schweinitzii, but I wouldn't put my house on it, not seen it on Yew, though there are records of it. Cut it down, if it has cubical brown rot inside, Bobs ya Aunty .
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Yes Tony, they look like Ganoderma .
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5 or 6 individual colonisations on 3 oak species at Hampstead, so possibly fairly common I'd say http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/56356-localised-distribution-fomes-fomentarius-3.html .
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leaning toward Megacollybia sp (perhaps M. platyphylla) but it would be useful to know what the spore colour is & perhaps a clearer image of the gill structure? .
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Yes, they could be .
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Cheers Reg, fair sized habitat stick (or snag, as our North American cousins like to call them) Beats having the ball ache of getting shot of the big stuff .
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Most excellent, thanks for sharing I'm in Norfolk fairly often, I should make the effort to go see the Kett's and Chedgrave oaks .
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The Cage Pollard at Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire a personal favourite .
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'The Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London Planted in 1762 .
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The 2500 year old Ankerwyke Yew .
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Britains first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire A magnificant specimen .
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Not technically true, there's been a succesful attempt at grafting material from the Pontfadog oak on to root stock at Kew and Windsor I believe so it kinda lives on.. A pity the oportunity to prop the tree didn't occur. but I get ya point .
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In 2002 the Tree Council celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee by selecting 50 Great British Trees..........old news now. To my shame I've only visited 8 of them so far The Lime Tree in Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire The Cage Pollard in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire The Ankerwycke Yew in Wraysbury, Berkshire (three weeks ago ) 'The Old Lion' Ginkgo in Kew Gardens, Richmond, London Britain's first Dawn Redwood in Cambridge University Botanic Garden Britain's first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire The Fortingall Yew, in Perth and Kinross Here's the list.......WebCite query result how many have you had the pleasure of visiting? would be cool to see them all posted up here .
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current galls on the underside of oak leaves, from the gall wasp Andricus quercusbaccarum .
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with tiny air holes in it .
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particularly fine cherry girdle, left alone to play out whatever the battle outcome. .
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the cubical brown rot of Phaeolus schweinitzii within Pine. Would of made an interesting resonance with a sounding hammer .
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Sap wood Reg or right through the heart? .
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Indeed Marco, a fine reference But no Cameraria, and although packed full of great images, a little light on context images I find. Having said that, mine's a '95 edition so probably a fair bit out of date. .
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I guess for reference I shouldn't leave out the one that is making the loudest noise.... Cameraria ohridella; Horse chestnut leaf miner .
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Relatively mild winter would have had a significant effect on the number of bugs I would imagine. Also imagine that when phenolgy is taken into account, there will be a greater number of indigenous predators (birds/bats/spiders etc....) to keep the increased pest numbers in tow. .
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Holm oak leaf miner; Ectoedemia heringella first discovered in Greater London in 2002 , although there is also Stigmella suberivora associated with the tree whos mines are broader and less contorted. Unlike the holly leaf miner there are multiple miners per leaf The adult emerges as a moth similar in size to the horse chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria) .
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
David Humphries replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Ash stump with the fruiting brackets of Perenniporia fraxinea then from today, 7 years on from the first shot; Pluteus species (perhaps P. cervinus the Deer shield) .
