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Tony, You've summarized the essence of the "holistic" method of Mycological Tree Assessment - including VTA - and of the in MTA integrated concept of the Tree Species Specific Ecosystem, including the role more or less tree species specific macrofungi and the local soil food web play, in concluding, that the same TSSE can differ depending on the soil, ecological (association with other tree species) and climatic or abiotic and biotic conditions of a specific habitat it is part of.
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You mean the direct connection of a specific root with a specific branch, as is found in beech, which "explains" why Fagus can not be heavely pruined or pollarded and why Oudemansiella mucida "walking" outward in in/on a branch is an indicator of Meripilus giganteus, Armillaria species or Xerula radicata being active and also "walking" outward in in/on the corresponding root ?
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Yes, it was on a Robinia standing in the verge of a road between two towns near the city of Utrecht in 1999. In The Netherlands it is mostly documented from beech and a few times from oak and it has a peculiar pattern of spreading, as it "followes" the beeches along the defense lines against the invading nazi's in 1940, which have been hit and damaged by German grenades and beeches in the vicinity of the German V2 launching platforms along the Dutch coast between The Hague and Rotterdam. ---
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In this case up, because the fruiting started about 1 metre above ground level and stretched out to a height of 6 metres within 5 years time, i.e. it further colonized the trunk by one metre a year.
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Documentation of the first and only find of Hericium erinaceum on Robinia pseudoacacia. ---
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Documentation of K. deusta fruiting up to 6 metres high on the trunk of a living beech. ---
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the body language of Decay, The Delights of D
Fungus replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
This is what Phellinus ignarius does to the trunk of a Populus alba, note the body language of the tree. ---
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The top surface of the cap, which had almost completely been "scraped off".
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In The Netherlands it is the other way around, predominantly L. sulphureus and according to my documentation, only three times F. hepatica on Castanea.
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L. sulphureus can also be very invasive in Castanea sativa. ---
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the body language of Decay, The Delights of D
Fungus replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
No, not at that time, but there was panic fruiting of H. annosum on the stump within a month after the spruce had been felled two years later. -
... or small rodents, leaving their "scraping" teeth marks behind on a the cap of a bolete. ---
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the body language of Decay, The Delights of D
Fungus replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
The bottle shaped base of the trunk of a Picea of which the below, at and above ground level central wood completely has been white rotted by Heterobasidion annosum. ---
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I don't know why you British gave this chafer such a name, in Dutch we simply call them May or June beetles .
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Hericium coralloides as a successive species on rotten wood in a wide open cavity of a beech, which was decomposed by Inonotus cuticularis, of which in the left front corner old blackened brackets still are present, but which has stopped fruiting since the mycelium of the Hericium found a foothold in the remains of the wood. ---
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... which explains why the grubs are absent in beech woods, because Fagus keeps all the light from the forest floor and on top of that makes the growth of plants and/or grasses impossible underneath the tree by "sealing" the tree floor with thick layers of slowly decomposing leaves, capules and twigs. In this case, the beech is standing in an often mown lawn, which makes the regeneration of grass roots even more excessive.
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Yes, they are. The beeches are at a crossing of four cycle tracks, there's shade and a brook close by with a field of False Lily of the Valley some cyclists stop for to look at. ---
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The unknown species being the white gilled one, i.e. Oudemansiella mucida ?
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1. No, decayed wood (of oak stumps) is preferred by the grubs of the Stag beetle (Lucanus cervus). 2. And grass roots are the preferred food of Cockchafer's grubs.
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Yes, maybe, but why also eat the woody and less digestible tree roots of the beech, if you could just as well confine to gnawing off the ectomycorrhizae, while consuming the grass roots and their endomycorrhizae completely, unless your "starving", because of the many grubs present ?
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Tony & David, You're both close, most (Dutch) people see a dragon too, but a very special one : Swellbelly from the Dutch movy "If you know what I mean" after the cartoons by Marten Toonder on Mr. Bumble and Tom Puss, the dragon swelling up each time it was given a bit of loving and tender care. And especially children familiar with Donald Duck see Goofy in it.
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Maybe, although grass roots have mycorrhizae, that is to say, endomycorrhizae too.
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As consolation , two photo's of Q. robur with different patterns of decomposition of the trunk base by G. australe. In the second photo, G. australe is active to the right, while at the same time L. sulphureus (brackets top left) has almost completely brown rotted the rest of the tree base.
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The beech didn't. I have never seen so much damage done to the well mycorrhized fine roots of a tree before by these gluttonous beasts, which mainly live from munching grass roots. Maybe the problem arose, because beeches highly depend on rain for their water supply and develop very supercial and close to ground level fine roots, which in this case were densily "interwoven" with grass roots.
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No alas, this was all there was left when I came the second time around yesterday to see what the stump looked like after the tree was felled earlier this week. What came off, still must have been useful as fire wood, because they had taken it all and even the impressive perennial brackets of G. australe were missing.
