David Humphries

Look like Coprinus sp possibly C. micaceus .

It certainly would be very interesting to see a series of x sections through the trunk of this one. Get the saw sharp I think one years evidence of the state of the fruiting of different species is perhaps not entirely representative of the state the ongoing battle for territory. I find these things can fluctuate year on year and you may find that next time the fistulina either fruit completely to maturity or may not even appear. I've noted the opposite on an occasion where fistulina fruited one year on the same region of the same host and Laetiporus didn't, where the previous year both fruited to maturity together at the same time. But of course the situation could be as you say, and be indicative of either a reduced food volume in the areas where the fistulina are, or perhaps the result of the war between the two. Show us again in twelve months time.........or the slices in a month Have you got any close ups of the Fistulinas? .

Possibly just lack of water. Yews don't particularly like it dry, as this year has been. Although if this is on Mull I suspect you get it wet a lot of the time? I've come across young and very old yews that have looked similar for a number of years and then recovered with hydration and nutrients. A mulch bed can often help the situation. Have a look at this older thread http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/52784-totteridge-yew.html .

I was at a seminar today, part of which was regarding roots. The deepest live and functioning roots ever found are from a Ficus in a cave system in South Africa. They are 150 meters directly below the trunk. It would appear roots will grow where they need to. .

I work in tree time Jules, so often wait for seasons to elapse before getting or supplying answers. Perhaps I was an Ent in a previous incarnation Not unusual to not find a seasons worth of fruiting bodies when Meripilus is concerned. They're so maggoty when desicated I've know gardeners to tentatively scrape the stinking squidgy fungi-due into bags to tidy things up Personally can't see anything on the rehydrated specimen to aid identification. But like you say, the cat's out of the proverbial........... .

Guy, is the layout above what you generally use with the majority of your clients? Do you ever get feed back or are you here after years of different approaches? Not criticism, just curious in looking at different report/client interactions. Like the spec on the left hand oak particularly. No bull & clear concise info "Inoculation"........que ? .

incredible lack of difference in size over the 110 years. Another good one Graham .

Konnichiwa Paul "Bomb point".....Que? help out a weary old tree clamberer.....please .

I'm in my 28th year where I work. For the last 10 of those I've been blessed with a job that I enjoy immensley .

I've started looking at the association with more caution than I previously did, once I came across this episode. This oak also had dryadeus, but its the root interface that has failed & not the upper buttressing. .

just the one fruit body or more around the trunk? The one above 'looks' like it has healthy adaptive growth in the buttressing. .

I don't think these are Armillaria. The only uk Armillaria without a ring on the stem is A. tabescens. look more like one of the saprophytic Hypholoma sp to me, but I haven't got any references at hand. That's a cracking example .

Then yes, hispidus it is Nice tree. How big is it? .

What tree is the 'hispidus' on? yes to the dryadeus .

Laetiporus sulphureus - chicken of the woods Did you notice anything esle fruiting around the trees at the botanics? Not been there for a good while. .

Stropharia sp Dean perhaps S. aeruginosa .

Another fruit of the 'forest' that appears to be on the increase. Podoscypha multizonata - the many zoned rossette, here picked up by a colleague in what is a very busy west London park. Almost tripping up on them these days, which seems at odds with the status given to it with its own biodiversity action plan associated .

Oudemanciella mucida - the porcelain fungus another noted to be on the increase in my patch. perhaps due to less dead wooding on our beech than there used to be. .

Gymnopilus junonius - the spectacular rustgill here on a rotting hulk of some broadleaf or other. This year there seems to be a fair bit more of this around in my neck of the woods than has been noted before. .

It's only right to pass on to others that which others have passed on to you .

here, a neighbouring beech root in the woods that got a delicate test and then boot No after carnage shot I'm afraid .

a very high tech instument that lends itself well to a bit of probing and scraping .

a ten minute scrape and sever. there's something very satisfying when the constricted root lets pop .

removal of a young girdler from a P. x hispanica. .

Difficult to be sure as the shots aren't really clear, but I would think they are a Coprinus sp possibly C. micaceus. .