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David Humphries

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  1. Yes, these are Armillaria mellea, Honey fungus
  2. Inonotus hispidus
  3. Ganoderma resinaceum, the brown/cocoa spore colour confirms genus, it will be soft to touch which confirms it as one of the three annual UK Ganoderma species. If you wipe off the spore from the surface it will be a red resinous colour.
  4. Good to see you're still alive Deano ? How was the leather?
  5. big mast year again
  6. Vasates quadripedes - Maple bladder gall
  7. Teraneura ulmi - Elm- grass root aphid gall
  8. On ash? I think it looks like P. fraxinea. A slice/wedge of the flesh and tube layer would help confirm. Only other candidate that fits the look at that stage in development is Ganoderma resinaceum, but I think it’s likeky the former. another way to tell the difference between those two is the spore, white/cream for Perenniporia, brown/cocoa for G. resinaceum.
  9. Spangle galls from the gall wasp (Neuroterus quercusbaccaram) not really a health issue for the tree in my experience
  10. Great picture Matty, sums up the camaraderie and essence of Arbtalk and it’s members really well.
  11. Very sad to hear, Alan was a great forum character, my sincere condolences to his close friends and family.
  12. Possibly the start of a Trametes sp Maybe T gibbosa
  13. Are the fruit bodies not on a tree volume beneath the ivy, Murray ? Look a bit like Fuscoporia torulosa
  14. Image not really close enough, but have a look at Coprinellus disseminatus (fairy ink caps)
  15. You mean of course ‘pores’ ?
  16. I think the bracket has grown around the seedling, annual and perennial brackets grow rapidly during initial development.
  17. Grows with apples and sorbus as well. Depends (as with most of these fung things) on vitality of the tree. Munches away at it nicely, not as significant as ash due to heartwood but often you can see wood pecker holes in the wood volumes in colonised areas and I've noted failed branches associated with it.
  18. Someone needs a proper camera ? I'd imagine it's Inonotus hispidus, (Shaggy bracket) I see it on Walnut quite often.
  19. Isn’t it ! I went to a heathland site yesterday where there were literally many hundreds of Fomes brackets, would be a fantastic site to study the combative nature of Fomes fomentarius and Fomitopsis betulinus in close and abundent proximity within the same wood volumes. Hope this finds you doing well Gary?
  20. I can’t really tell to be honest but it ‘looks’ like a dried out slime mold like a Fuligo sp
  21. any context images from further away?
  22. You might want to consider re-potting (or planting) it & adding new soil with organic mix, as it looks to have run out of resource for its roots. It will be stressed in this condition and open to attack from various pests and disease.

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