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My first car was an old tin can panda, and in the alps a decade ago the 4x4 version was everywhere! Sounds like I should take the jimny more seriously, what sort of mpg does the 1.3 petrol give? I imagine insurance must be cheap as chips too... Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Thanks for your thoughts David. I know the colour and shape isn't like any of the hoof images seen in text books, I thought perhaps that only comes with age. It was the stretching that threw me, I've never seen fomes in the flesh, but know it can be beaten flat to make hats etc, and thought it may be like this. I've never had a gano slice stretch like this before, very odd, they normally break or are just too tough. What gano would you suspect? I've never seen them so uniformly white before... Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Thoughts and opinions please I'm considering getting a little vehicle specifically for going out surveying, rather than taking the family-mobile everywhere. I reckon something a bit more of a work vehicle would look better, and people might stop asking if I'm lost when I park in odd places and start looking up! Sign writing would probably help with that too... I don't need to carry more than a few small bags of gear, and I only really two seats. It will be mostly main A road miles, so something frugal would better than something that can pull a back leaning beech over. 4x4 would be useful but not essential, and lastly the cheaper the better. I have even seen and wondered about several suzuki jimny for around a grand, but I've always laughed at them in the past. Or maybe just a little corsa van, or...??? Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Is this Fomes fomentarius? Found on a mostly dead and very decayed old ash stem, mostly being devoured by Gano (applanatum most likely) in Essex. It was pure white on the outside, bruising brownish almost instantly with pressure - see two finger prints on the upper surface of the bracket. It was quite tough to slice, and very dark brown under the very thin white outer. Small pores, and tube layer just a few millimetres long. Most interesting feature was the ability to stretch the slice from an inch, to about 5! And even then it wasn't floppy, you could hold one end and 'point' with it. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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:eek: does the site have planning permission? Be interesting to see if there was a 5837 survey/report... Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Hmm, doesn't instill confidence in the ability to deliver the course. I think I'll go back to treelife once I have some free money and time under my belt Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
sloth replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
No images I'm afraid, mostly starting to shrivel or rot. Definate ring on stem. I'll have a look at procera now... ...ahh, no not procera. That's the tall skinny stemmed one with a distinctive 'nipple' in the centre that attains quite a size, often in fields, and quite delicious. The ones I am referring to are much more stout, and lack the raised nipple, can't think if the ring is free though, I have often seen them in the litter under conifers. I'll have to stop for a closer look next time... Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app -
Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
sloth replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Yup, I'm a happy fungster today. Also lots of what look like 6 inch tall/wide parasols under cypress and leylandii, seen them before here and there but never so many as this year - any ideas what they may be? Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app -
Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
sloth replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Again with pics! Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app -
Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
sloth replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
My first Confistulina, with Gano (applanatum?) on oak. Also a nice dinners worth of oysters... Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app -
I've seen honey fungus kill cedars pretty quick, especially in 'well cared for' lawns. Check for loose bark at the base with white, fan like mycelium below it. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Brilliant! Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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So with this in mind, what will the fate of the tree be? From the one context shot, target value doesn't seem particularly high.. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Another vote for resinaceum here. They don't really have a hard crust, it's easily depressed with a thumb. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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It's an extra thick stout Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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A veritable feast there! The parasols are excellent as mushroom curry or in a stroganoff. Whats the griffolla like? Never found one nice enough to eat. I have tried various methods with fisti, I think I just don't like it, which is a shame as they are everwhere at the moment! I'm never sure enough of my id on the boletes to eat them, which again is a shame as they seem really common under oaks and beech round here, and occasionally birch - the orange birch bolete being one of the few I have happily eaten. Oh, and what are the two bottom left? Making me jealous. Git! I'll just have to settle for my first pint of home brewed stout... Delicious Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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It could do with a mow! It might be a vole, I'm not sure myself... Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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They have done well then not sure if you were involved with the shorter tubes in the foreground - they look like they never quite got going... also found this little fella on the path nearby. He didn't seem scared of me at all, held my phone about three inches from him to take the pic, then left left him chewing grass! Anyone know sort of beasty it is? Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Looks like your Abberton planting is getting away nicely, especially the willows, hazel and hawthorns. I'm guessing it is where I'm pointing at number 37. When did they go in? Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Crikey! You got off lightly, you're still alive. Glad you're okay, and hope this thread helps someone else from making the same mistake Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Ginko, birch, rowan and field maple are some of faves where space may be limited Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Cheers Jules. Haven't seen the brc site before, and yes, P vitinella does look a very likely candidate. The feeding pattern is quite specific, and I dont recall ever seeing them before. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Ah ha! Not sure how often he checks the uktc, but if I can figure out how to post an image there it's worth a try. Ta... Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Anyone? Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
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This taken from naturenet... "Section 9 (of the wildlife and countryside act) prohibits the intentional killing, injuring or taking, the possession and the trade in wild animals listed in*Schedule 5*. In addition, places used for shelter and protection are safeguarded against intentional damage, destruction and obstruction and animals protected under the relevant part of Section 9 must not intentionally be disturbed whilst occupying those places." ...suggests it may well be an offence to grind out (destroy) a stump known to be used by stag beetles. Assuming they are listed under Schedule 5, which I think they are. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Arbtalk mobile app
