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What's with the new, well endowed mushroom man/reindeer beast sketch thing Hama?!

Where's that 'like' button?

As I understand it the white/grey immature form does not produce spores, that's the job of hard black crust. With that in mind, spores could be produced whenever the black crust is present; although I would expect it to stop when it reaches a certain age. (This may be wrong and I stand to be corrected) What is the reason behind waiting to grind the stump? If the Kretz is there and sporulating it will be releasing spores whether you grind or not. I'd have thought the sooner the stump (and fruit bodies) are gone the less the spores will be 'out and about' in the area...

Good point daltontrees, and thanks scottf (nice looking plan by the way )

Don't join religious cults, practice safe sects. Why did the clock go back four seconds? ...it was hungry!

I wish I didnt have a wife and kids, I would be out there like a shot! Only kidding, about the family... Great opportunity for someone

What if the OP's tree has permission to be felled subject to the grind and replant conditions, but work is stopped during the dismantle; Say a trunk of 10 feet is left, it may or may not re-shoot and potentially become a pollard. What then? I suppose it may depend on the wording of the conditions. What if the tree was completely butchered, laughing in the face of target pruning, proportional crown dimensions and 3998? There is still a tree there, albeit an eyesore to many and an insult to professionalism. However if permission is granted to remove, would this be worse? Hmm, a large butchered tree or no tree followed by a tiny replacement...

Fantastic! This country?

Excellent. Thanks for your input

Wound wood might also yield some results...

Does anybody have experience in the following situation, or a similar one? -A residential site of several acres wishes to demolish existing building and erect another in its place. -The site as outlined in the planning documents etc has many trees, and backs onto woodland. -only a couple of trees are anywhere near the building, the adjacent hardstanding and the entrance in/out of the site. The majority are to the rear of the property and no where near the development. My question is, can the 'site extents' be altered to reflect the actual area of the site which is likely to used for development? In effect missing the trees outside of the new site boundaries, which would reduce the size of survey/report needed from a whole day on site + write up, to just a couple of hours on site + write up = less cost to client. See 4.2.4 a, b & c attached, which gives guidance as to which trees on and off site are to be included. I don't think it is very clear on this matter. In this instance it may not make a huge difference, but on larger sites it could make a substantial difference in cost to the client. Thanks all, Kevin

Not the clearest of pics, but looks like plain old excelsior to me; buds just bursting...

Tree time is immense hard at times to relate to and put in perspective. Any thoughts on this Mr Croft? And where is that adusta?!?! Am I being blind

I've not done the pti, but as far as I am aware you do need a reasonable amount of background knowledge. Also I think the examination is 'open book', so reference material and familiarity with it would be good...

No not certain, I don't associate Rigidiporous with sheets to be honest. Also I thought it tended to have a more 'moist' and fibrous decay? The sheets were from higher up the tree at the crown break, in the base of the main branches. Would you mind pointing out the adusta for me? Is that the one which I can never remember which parasitizes the Trametes? Cheers Tony

Not the greatest example but an interesting tree nonetheless. I stumbled upon this while out feeding ducks with the kids. It is well out of falling distance of the board walk path nearby, the tree itself being in a bit of bog on a nature site; so very little target value/occupancy. I don't know if it is finished or due to be felled, or if the timber and brash is left for habitat or not. The work was very recently carried out. Anyway; a ton of Trametes versicolour on the failed branch, some type of crust (no pics) further along it, what look like Armillaria plaques exposed in the cavity, lots of Rigidiporous ulmarius (I think) in and around the cavity with two or three very large brackets knocked off (juice cartoon for scale), and what looks like cubical dry decay with mycelial sheets of Laetiporous where a large branch has failed. On top of all the fungal activity there was masses of beetle larvae feeding holes in the exposed wood in the cavity, woodlouse and millepedes under the fallen brackets, birds visiting from top to bottom to feast on the insects and a whole load of bugs I couldn't ID. Oh, that small branch at the top of the cavity is actually a birch, just coming into leaf! All in all a wonderful willow teeming with life. I hope its left as it is now and not finished tomorrow, chipped up and logged!!!

No groans from here, take good care of and enjoy it

For anyone that may be interested its all gone now. 60cm of hair gone to a good cause Many thanks to all that donated, and anyone who may still wish to...

or holding the belief that said wood IS his to take, despite its current owners views. Speculation! C'mon, spill the beans...

Could be the resupinate fruit body of an unidentified fungus perhaps?

Yup, don't let the name fool you!

Fantastic My two year old wanted monkey nests for dessert. After further questioning she meant merangutans nest (meringue nests)...

Known as sphearoblasts, try a forum search, there have been a few threads on these...

Done

We have a winner!!! Wait, was it even a competition?