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  1. David Humphries
    Just an observation from a secondary school perspective. We live in Suffolk which had seven seats up for election. Before yesterday all seven seats were Conservative. Post election the Ipswich seat has been won by the Labour candidate with the other six remaining Tory mostly with very strong majorities. My lads go to a school in Bury St Edmunds, all week they have been having an election special being given unbiased access to the different party manifestos. There are 23 classes in the school and all the students were asked to vote yesterday. the the results; 19 classes had a Labour majority 3 had a Conservative majority 1 had a Green majority Quite a different view of the world from their parents it would seem .
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    Frog taking in the view from atop a Rigidoporus ulmarius bracket .
  3. David Humphries
    We offer out the resistograph as a technical service at £140 + vat per tree then an additional £40 for further trees on the same site. You may find this will differ in price as we only offer it as a service to pay for the annual recalibration charge which is about £600 .
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    Rigidoporus ulmarius on a pretty big poplar Resistograph shows sound wood volume for the first 20 odd cm but then goes into brown rot We'll be keeping a good look on this one .
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    Dead willow from earlier in the thread colonised by Ganoderma australe. We reduced it in 2011 to a standing dead monolith 6 years on and we've reduced it once a couple of years ago and the white rot has led to further collapse (willows are pants as long term monoliths) But it still provides valuable habitat and a perch for the resident Kestrel .
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    Update on the hornbeam mowing wound occlusion from earlier in the thread Original damage May 2013 August 2015 November 2015 Today, June 2017 .
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    Occasionally come across Inonotus obliquus but oddly not on the trees on my site in north London which has thousands of birch trees. .
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    Not great detail in the image, but I would imagine this is Phellinus pomaceus/tuberculosus. It is a white rot (relatively intense) but due to the size of its usual host (cherry plum) the trees can go on for years before failure occurs, particularly if the tree has good vitality. One option would be to lessen the wind load on the canopy sail by small reduction. Another option would be to fell and replace. .
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    This years newly forming Ganoderma resinaceum on the scars of old fruit body's .
  10. David Humphries
    Not 100% sure (as no gill shots) but the small ones may be one of the Coprinus species possibly C. congregatus. Do you know if the dead ash regrowth shown in the last image had the tell tale lesions and drooping/wilting dead leaves? .
  11. David Humphries
    Liking both images Mario, thanks again for sharing your work. .
  12. David Humphries
    Took a lot of drilling .
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    With the amount of dogs walking on this path it wouldn't particularly be advisable to munch on this particular group .
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    Not really .
  15. David Humphries
    Mmmmm, oysters...... .
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    It's possible I guess, though I've personally not noticed Kretzschmaria guttating before. .
  17. David Humphries
    I think I've read or heard David Lonsdale saying he also didn't believe that suggestion, likening it to an old wives tale. I think it's more to do with regulating moisture content in the rapid development of the FB. .
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    A common phenomenom that is often witnessed on annual polypores. Not entirely understood from a scientific perspective but is usually noted to be during the rapid growth process of the fruit body development. Occasionally I've noted it on the beefsteak fungus (Fistulina hepatica) including its anamorph The greasy bracket (Aurantiporus fissilis) often presents with exuding droplets The chicken of the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) can be seen glistening with underside jewels of liquid particularly whilst using a flash. A regular site on the shaggy bracket (Inonotus hispidus) Can occasionally be witnessed on perennial brackets like the horseshoe bracket (Fomes fomentarius) but the undisputed king of fungal guttation is the oak bracket (Psuedoinonotus dryadeus) .
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    We have young natural regen ash saplings with it in London .
  20. David Humphries
    Polypore species on dead birch, probably the Blackfoot polypore (P. leptocephalus aka P. varius) .
  21. David Humphries
    Nice bit of wood between your legs there Dave .
  22. David Humphries
    Big Cockadoodledoo - Big words .
  23. David Humphries
    Inordinately extremely highly likely ! .
  24. David Humphries
    Highly likely .
  25. David Humphries
    Very nice capture Sean, heard it was a good day down there. .

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