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  1. David Humphries
    Ha, not on my salary, and don't think my crypto portfolio will run to a Constable. Did think about slipping one of the smaller ones under me jacket on the way out, but don't think my knees would of held out high tailing it down the Cromwell Road
  2. David Humphries
    At the V&A and stumbled upon these John Constable views of the trees and landscape of Hampstead Heath from the 1770's. Very different today as secondary woodland has engulfed a large portion of the site since grazing stopped in the 1950's
  3. David Humphries
    Precursor to dead part or entire tree. Indicative of a dysfunctional unit (root, buttress, trunk, branch) or in later stages colonises complete dysfunctional parts of the tree. The beech below succumbed to a significant Meripilus infection which led to the dysfunction of the vascular parts of the tree that the Chondro colonised.
  4. David Humphries
    It's already an 8m monolith Jake, we'll reduce it some more when I feel it's completely defying gravity
  5. David Humphries
    As well as the Hetero and Kretz this one also has colonisations of Ganoderma australe, Herricium chirahtus, Flammulina velutipes, Fomes fomentarius and Meripilus Jake.
  6. David Humphries
    Few bits from today Xylaria carpophila (beech mast candle snuff) Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) Chondrostereum purpureum Heterobasidion annosum & Kretzschmaria deusta
  7. David Humphries
    Heterobasidion annosum & Kretzschmaria deusta vying for the same rooty wood volume here on this beech from earlier today. Not much rooty stuff left I suspect
  8. David Humphries
    Don't think these are turkey tails, but one of the other Trametes sp Pore surface shots can often help to narrow down the Id.
  9. David Humphries
    Yellow is Tremmella sp again, black ones are probably Bulgaria inquinans (the black bulgar) Last couple are possibly Schizophyllum commune (the split gill fungus) but image contrast is a bit too washed out to pick up macro details. More interesting (for me personally) to see the ones that are in season, but always happy to try and help with older images if you're stuck on Id's.
  10. David Humphries
    Landmark mate, enjoy the next phase.
  11. David Humphries
    Very nice set of turkey tails, saprophytic in nature so perhaps look for the primary reason of the dysfunction whether that be mechanical or biological.
  12. David Humphries
    Ha, good name. ! definately a Tremella. T. mesenterica or T. auarantia
  13. David Humphries
    May be one of the Tremella species but can't really see enough detail. jelly type or mushroom?
  14. David Humphries
    Cutting back to the original bolling would likely be the end of them, there'll be very poor starch reserves left at the base of the poles as they are long lapsed from cutting. Light (or lack of) will be a concern , as they appear to sit within a fairly dense canopy? Guessing they're hornbeams? Best set way to stabilise/restore them (if there is desire and/or resource) would be a multiple phased reduction and haloing the surrounding trees.
  15. David Humphries
    One of the main winter fruiting species, and quite distinctive. posted these the other day on another thread.
  16. David Humphries
    When growing conditions are poor for good vitality, I've seen this species go through diffuse porous tree species like a hot knife through butter.
  17. David Humphries
    Unless ofcourse it's in a dog walking park
  18. David Humphries
    Presence is due to dysfunction of pathway from root up the trunk. 1 - watch it decline more, take pretty pictures 2 - fell it, if and when it dies
  19. David Humphries
    Flammulina velutipes (velvet shank)
  20. David Humphries
    Cheers Paul way cooler, obviously ? There’s a pretty steep slope running down hill from right to left, that doesn’t really show in the pictures and video. The site had access to a 34m tracked teupen but it can’t reach the back of the tree due to the set up on the slope. We’ve used versions of the high line on a few tree reductions, but we find it useful to keep the technique live in the tool box so that change of team personnel can be confident in its use and set up when an opportunity arises.
  21. David Humphries
    Ta, but just an iPhone 6s
  22. David Humphries
    Black stuff possibly Exidia plana , log fung may be Sterium hirsutum and Trametes versicolor, second last is Bjerkendera adusta, last one is either Phellinus ferruginosus or P. ferreus.
  23. David Humphries
    High line access, to reduce an unstable root decayed declining veteran beech pollard
  24. David Humphries
    Lepista species, possibly L. saeva (the field blewit) rather than L. nuda (the wood blewit) Seen yesterday on the edge of grassland next to mixed deciduous woodland
  25. David Humphries
    One aspect of it maintaining its structural stability is that whilst its still got a functioning canopy creating energy, through photosynthesis, it will have been putting on reactive wood where it needs it over a long time frame. So those flared tension buttress roots are almost certainly bigger and more developed now due to the unbalance nature of the trees weight and the load that the wind places on it. You may need to wait another 10..20..30..40 years before it fails. ....but then again, it may be down next week

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