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  1. Kveldssanger
    Silver maple has smooth bark, though it fissures lightly with age, until it becomes almost like the trunk is covered with plates of bark separated by shallow fissures. The growth form looks like it could be silver maple, too - very 'limby', lots of epicormic, etc.
  2. Kveldssanger
    No, silver maple is Acer saccharinum and sugar maple is Acer saccharum.
  3. Kveldssanger
    Potentially silver maple - Acer saccharinum.
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    Taking a half day at work to drive down tomorrow, to look at this fungus and also the garden as a whole.
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    Oh dear, didn't spot the ear defenders for scale ha! Yeah one of those two mentioned above.
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    I have seen two 'generations' of dryad saddle this year on the same host, and a friend has seen three. Chicken of the woods had more than one season, as well, this year. I suppose it depends upon climatic factors, and the weather this year has been pretty decent for the wood-decay fungi (notably polypores).
  7. Kveldssanger
    Good luck! Great place to learn, for certain. Who is your tutor - Andy?
  8. Kveldssanger
    Opposite buds. A type of maple, perhaps? Acer distylum?
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    Very pretty. Lovely scientific name, as well.
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    Having spoken to someone who is pretty darn good with fungi, they think it may be F. wahlbergii, which is a red data species and thus very rare. Only ten records in the UK, I am told. I'll give the place a call tomorrow and see if they can arrange for some spores to be sent off to check, and a small cutting, to both this expert and probably also Kew.
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    Neat. Not seen much in the way of boletes around here yet. Unfortunately the grass cutters are out for three weeks now, so that might blitz some emerging fungi.
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    Sweet. Thanks. Will bear that in mind when down that way, seeing family.
  13. Kveldssanger
    Nice shots there. Hopefully David can confirm if it indeed is. Out of curiosity, where exactly is this tree? Might use it as an excuse to drive down to the New Forest for a day soon, if it's down that way...
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    My first impression was P. dryadeus, too. If it is, that's perhaps one cause of the marked buttressing. Is it the most 'hazardous' fungus in the world? Probably not. Best shot is to PICUS the tree or run a Resistograph through it. From a tree health perspective, I'd suggest the former. It'd be largely unwise to fell / prune / do nothing without such information, given where it is.
  15. Kveldssanger
    And some Dead Can Dance (darkwave) [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLBtP8KzI9o[/ame]
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    Some Vedic-driven stuff: [ame] [/ame]
  17. Kveldssanger
    I just finished reading this book. I genuinely enjoyed it. Not a great deal I didn't already know, though the manner in which the author conveys his knowledge is quite brilliant. It's so easy to read, it's as if the words just roll gracefully off the page. Certainly one people should buy, as it completely instills a heightened sense of morality in the reader. Look after the trees, treat them with care and respect, be humble in their presence, and do not deny them their social needs. Like us, trees need their parents (sometimes surrogates), as do they need their kin and comrades.
  18. Kveldssanger
    That'd align with my thoughts on it being a Phellinus species (or what was once considered Phellinus pini). Never heard of that polypore - will check it out.
  19. Kveldssanger
    Almost strikes me as Porodaedalea pini on steroids, with regards to the colouration and morphology. Unsure about Perenniporia fraxinea, as the trama (flesh) seems to be too rustic in colour. Do you have any close-up shots of the tube layer and flesh, etc? From these photos alone, it's hard to really make any concrete suggestions. When you say Chinese euonymous, what is the scientific name for the tree? Too vague of a description with the host.
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    Yup P. dryadeus. Nice find.
  21. Kveldssanger
    Aye! Particularly important to discern them through means other than looking at the sporophore as a whole, as Gano and Rigidi cause selective white and brown rot, respectively. On the topic of deceivers, what I thought was Ganoderma resinaceum on poplar (Populus sp.) for some months was actually Perenniporia fraxinea. As you may be able to appreciate, it did look resinaceum-y. Only when it started to move towards its annual slumber did I stop and question whether it was. First three shots are from earlier on in the year, and the last two just a few days back.
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    I'd agree with David - merip. Doesn't have the colouration necessary for Grifola.
  23. Kveldssanger
    Cool hens and oak tongues, there. Much prefer oak tongue to beefsteak...
  24. Kveldssanger
    Some cheeky little Rigidoporus ulmarius on Acer negundo. Drove past last week and thought it was Ganoderma australe, but it was a little more exciting than that. Lovely beetle galleries in the dead sections, judging by all the exit holes. The tree is quite evidently suffering, having lost some major limbs, and therefore whilst the crown will be collapsed due to the decay all up the stem, the dieback in the crown, etc, the trunk will remain for the fungal habitat and the sprouts can grow up to form a new crown much lower and smaller in size (assuming those there already survive).
  25. Kveldssanger
    Unfortunately, I couldn't definitively say what this is. Other users with more experience may have a better inclination, however. It looks like the fungus was perhaps pulled up from the earth, from looking at the second image - maybe some buried deadwood just below the surface. Of course, it could be parasitic, or even colonising upon a dead root tracking just beneath the surface.

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