sloth

Fair enough. I think we have to agree to disagree though. No hard feelings.

Worcs I seem to recall you working on a secret new gizmo last year sometime. Will it be gracing this thread soon?

Is that the best you can do Sloth, his original quote was " suspect its anamorph"! I'm not trying to 'best' anything. To add any credibility to what you have written he would have had to say, I suspect that P. schwenitzii has two stages of fruiting and this is the anamorph! True. I may be completely wrong having read between the lines of someone who struggles to get their point accross concisely using the written word. (No offence Tony) Every reader and his dog knows the truth here Sloth! Imagine if someone else wrote that s***, he would have been down their throats like a fat old Matron, I have seen this so many times and it makes me want to vomit and it will not stop until the unnecessary pampering stops. I think it would depend who wrote it and in what context. From what I have seen of Tonys postings over the last few years he would be more likely to ask for further clarification of the intended meaning. Again, I may be wrong. I don't want to spark some sort of post war with you, you seem pretty knowledgeable and often make good points however it seems to me you have taken a personal and unnecessary issue with Tony. I don't want you to think I'm pampering him, he is big enough to look after himself. True, some people afford him a 'fungi demi god' like status. I dont believe he feels that is warranted and makes no bones about his lack of education or qualifications. Sometimes he can be a drama queen, and needs to step off his high horse; and sometimes he's right to be on it. As said before, nobody is perfect. Perhaps Tony will come along and say my assumptions on his post are wrong. In which case I apologise. If the replies to his posts sicken you, a good start might be the 'ignore memer posts function'! All the best, Kevin

I chose to omit nothing. I'm sorry, I don't see what relevance it has to my post. Care to elaborate?

In post 6 he recommends sending a sample, and the difference between highly likely and likely results in the same ultimate diagnosis: maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. Picking on it does seem patronizing to me, sorry if you didn't intend it to come accross as such. Bark dieing beyond the collar can be a symptom. It was never a professional opinion, just an informal one (from someone who knows their onions and has a passion for them) on a public forum. None of us are perfect: can't we all just get along!!?!?!?

That has cleared nothing up, you have tried to baffle brains with meaningless gobledygook and again state the obvious. > Really?! My question was, "does Phaeolus Schweinitzii have an anamorph" ?! The answer is very simple, requiring a maximum of ONLY three letters > Is it not clear from the 'gobbledygook' that he (and maybe no one, anywhere) knows if P schweinitzii has an anamorphic form? He suspects (as with many quirks of fungi) it may have been undiscovered; or at least not reported and confirmed. So 'maybe' or ' I do not know' would be the short answers. Both more than three letters! The trouble with fungi (or that which makes them interesting to study) is they are largely short lived, and not many people, particularly in this fungiphobic UK, know an unusual specimen or discovery from a bog standard one; or how to go about sampling and further investigating. Hope that clears things up a bit...

So I was 3rd? Shouldnt have replied first!

Very nice, especially the last two

Wet signed?

Thanks for the update

So do you think the '?' circled in red could be mesenterica?

Whatever happened to the op? Hope he wasnt scared off...

It does look like P. fraxinea, was the tree dead before you felled it? Also, any ideas on the red circled areas here? Not very clear on my little phone screen; are they the undersides of the buttresses which pulled up when felled? Could they be Kretch? Or do they have purple colouring, Chondostereum purpureum maybe?

Nor on tapatalk...

Done good luck!

Pleurotus ostreatus, oyster mushroom most likely. Bit past their best, would have been a feast for you otherwise!

:eek: swot I fort... Someone help him, before he gets busted! I like that thread!

What a remarkable difference from 2010. Would be interesting to know if mulch was the only helping hand given, and details of said mulching; seaon, species, depth, time between chipping and spreading etc. Thanks

Photoshopped? I don't think so...

Yep, shame I can't take the credit for it!

The owners spoke about shortening a low branch over the road, other than that I believe it safe from prying saws... ....for now

Mr Humphries, the leaves have gone This is the oak from post #2753, what's left of the brackets, and the nicely covered buttress area (and seat of root damage)...

Thanks all

Sorry for the slight derail, how do trees not in the ground fall into CAs? Eg. You buy and place a large tree, in a container, in your front garden. Is it then covered under the CA, and requiring a s211 for further works? What if you wanted to move it? What if the container was in the ground, would lifting and moving it count as 'uprooting'?

Does anyone know where I can download the latest blue book from? A Google search takes me to the planning portal site, which links me to a page that apparently no longer exists?! Any pointers appreciated, thanks...