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  1. David Humphries
    Someone needs a proper camera ? I'd imagine it's Inonotus hispidus, (Shaggy bracket) I see it on Walnut quite often.
  2. David Humphries
    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?
  3. David Humphries
    Hoof !
  4. David Humphries
    I can’t really tell to be honest but it ‘looks’ like a dried out slime mold like a Fuligo sp
  5. David Humphries
    any context images from further away?
  6. David Humphries
    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.
  7. David Humphries
    Ganoderma adspersum will associate with a wide range tree species. The spores of the fungal fruiting bracket on this Eucalyptus will be everywhere in this and the neighbouring garden and could/will recolonise any tree host that is stressed or damaged. So, it's perhaps not really a question of which tree species to replant with but more one around protecting any new tree from damage (mower, strimmer, compaction, fencing etc...) establishing it well and and keeping it healthy (access to good un-compacted free draining soil, water & full sun light) Sounds like this tree probably should be removed and replaced with a different species due to the use and size of the garden. My experience of Ganoderma and Eucalyptus in (sub-optimal growing environments) is not good, the mycelium will remove most of the lignin in the heart of the tree and eventually impact on the residual wall strength. This one failed in a pretty strong wind, but was probably only a question of when.
  8. David Humphries
    Chicken of the woods, (Laetiporus sulphureus). Brown rot decayer.
  9. David Humphries
    It does look a bit like Sparassis although Fuligo (and its closely associated myxos) can look like this and many other forms as they are quite variable.
  10. David Humphries
    I think the first image are different stages of the slime mould Fuligo septica.
  11. David Humphries
    I thought it was a very good webinar, the three panellist spoke well and John compared it with skill and panache ☺️ Some of the questions were a bit lame mind ?
  12. David Humphries
    Grifola frondosa is an unusual association with birch. I've noted it on other tree species (Robinia, hazel, cherry) as well its main host (oak) but don’t recall seeing it with birch. Although I have read that it can be a host association, and have seen a record of this. Do you know if there evidence of it being G. frondosa? Just interested. If it is, then it is likely to be evidence of root dysfunction and associated white rot decay of some/all of the roots of the tree, possibly caused by root fracture via a strong wind event or below ground damage from utility excavation. Has the tree been tested in any way? Visual assessment during root excavation, decay drill, pull testing? Again, just interested in the tree inspectors methods.
  13. David Humphries
    Looks like a slime mould - false puffball, (Enteridium lycoperdon) Feeding on dysfunctional wood volume.
  14. David Humphries
    Ta, most are from files, couple of them more recently.
  15. David Humphries
    You've been tango'd ! Orange....ish fungi L. sulphureus I. hispidus F. pinicola P. adiposa T. ferruginosa Slime mold A. aurantia Bacterial slime flus Cheilymenia spp R. epindendron C. perennis G. sabinae L. aurantiacus F. hepatica S. scutelatta A. muscaria var formosa S. aurantiaca T. mesenterica F. velutipes C. viscosa P. aurantiorugosus
  16. David Humphries
    The picture is of the Dexter Elm in 1894 Massachusetts, controlling Gypsy moth
  17. David Humphries
    Any images?
  18. David Humphries
    Nice find
  19. David Humphries
    Thought you’d find it of interest. ? I’ll pop back later in the year to see if there are any localised bleeds.
  20. David Humphries
    Five years on.......
  21. David Humphries
    Fine image Ben, great capture of colour and morphology ?
  22. David Humphries
    Would think this is G. adspersum
  23. David Humphries
    Cool tree
  24. David Humphries
    woodland beech possibly 70 years, this was a third order branch.
  25. David Humphries
    Again at Burnham Beeches.... Brown rot and white rot at two ends of the same short beech wood volume. Fomitopsis pinicola (red banded polypore) and Pannellus stiptica - (bitter oysterling)

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