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I've never seen them with a company name on before, I wouldn't have thought there was room for it on a little tag? If you have any luck please post where/cost etc... Good luck!

An ash pollard is a fine sight indeed. This Chalara is really quite depressing...

Strange, could be wind scorch, or might even be a lighting strike...

If Samuel Pepys lost his diary would he have gave up? Start a new one to fulfil the lust for fung! Also what's up with the holey pine cone David?

tapatalk seems to be on summertime still...

fantastic video, if slightly manic character. taught in less than ten minutes what would have taken a week at secondary school! nicely done

Or possibly drought earlier in the year? I would expect amylostereum to affect the growing tips first, but may well be wrong...

Beer and Ice Cream Diet As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg. F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized. Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal. This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.Happy eating! School of Physics, University of Sydney

Updated vta field guide is an eye opener. Do a site search for hamadryads bookclub, some key books available for perusal...

http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/forestry/survey/ Very quick survey (2 mins) relevant to us all, as it makes mention of urban trees as well as forests. Have your say...

Don't do damage, don't get caught :sly: Once above head height pull your rope up, its surprising how little people look up! Edit: Not little short people, little as in often. Or not very often, as the case may be...

I thought you might have something to add David!

Done...

I'm sure it won't rival the little arbs thread, but here's one to start it off...

That looks very interesting, and a good result with the kids as well; they are the future after all! I wonder, the girdling root is clearly affecting stem growth/vascular function, but would it have grafted to the stem in time. And further nourished the stem allowing it to continue with good biological function and incremental growth. Also there would then be no wounds, for example, for armillaria to exploit; where the resources in that area of trunk are currently lacking. Perhaps some scoring in the 'root:stem interface groove' (good term hey? You heard it here first!) where the root runs along the stem would encourage wound wood, with more meristematic tissues. Therefore more likely to graft, maybe? Perhaps done along half the length of the rsig one year, and the other half when/if grafting occurs. I'm not for a moment suggesting you did wrong, just putting late night ponderings out into the cyberspace ether...

I know a guy who I went for a rec climb with a few years ago. Casually told me at 60 feet 'I have to keep checking these screws, they won't tighten. Can't afford a new harness at the mo though' It was the u bolt screws both ends of the bridge were knackered, and bridge knicked with a silky. Said he could just buy a new bridge. Nearly a year later of daily use and it hadnt changed! Margin of safety on climbing gear must be quite high! :eek:

Perhaps start here... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-fungi-72.html

Nicely illustrated, much obliged

I did think squarrosa but with it being on beech I thought it more likely aurivella. I thought maybe the scales on the cap must wash off very quickly. What makes you so sure, does aurivella not have recurved scales on the cap? Blurry scales on stipe?

Horse chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria orhidella (spelling?) and an autumn colour on the oak...

Young pholiota aurivella, very fresh

Ah precious memories, standing out like golden nuggets when a dry... Nice shot too

Quite the challenge! I guess you've already got a lot of species images? Any you're stuck for, or not worth sending you?

As the first wild fungi I learnt to ID many years ago, it simply is not right. The cap is too rounded with no nipple, flares out at the bottom too much, is the wrong colour and does not look gelatinous enough. The stem also looks the wrong colour and too thick. I don't know what they are, mycena perhaps? No idea on the first either!

Certainly not liberty caps