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Here is what his book was partly based on - the wonderful work of Suzanne Simard: [ame] [/ame]
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Probably best to start a thread on this, so people in the future can use this. Three ones people should probably be aware of (two from this year): Polyporus squamosus > Cerioporus squamosus - see here Piptoporus betulinus > Fomitopsis betulina - see here Inonotus dryadeus > Pseudoinonotus dryadeus - see here
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Chicken 100%. Cannot discern the large pores of Cerioporus squamosus and the morphology is distinctly chicken-esque. Nice shots here: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
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Is this bird the equivalent of the octopous that accurately predicated football results at the world cup? Get him to Kew ASAP.
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Yeah the light-coloured nature probably means it wouldn't be, in this case. I shall update this thread tomorrow with better photos.
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Quite relieved I am not losing the plot! Being on the line to BT OpenReach for 45 minutes just to report a fallen branch on a phone wire is soul-destroying, and plus horrific traffic I took one look at these photos and had flash backs to my days of misidentifying chicken. Hahah. It's a private tree unfortunately, and noticed it only as there was a PINS inspections close by. Afar it certainly looked yellow enough to be laeti, and at no time did I think it to be drayd saddle, until looking at the photos on my laptop and zooming in. I shall take my new camera to it tomorrow and get some zoomed images, hopefully helping clarify!
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Long day, and I got home thinking this was chicken but looking again at the photos I'm slightly unsure. Potential for Cerioporus squamosus (Polyporus squamosus), given the darkened perimeters drooping down over from the upper surface. No stalked nature, and tiered like Laetiporus sulphureus, but fancy a second opinion on this one please. Dryad saddle can also tier similarly, and also wave at the margins at times. Bit late for both species, but chicken has had a 'second go' this year, with some fresh stuff out on sweet chestnut after the rain at the weekend. 95% sure Laeti but just want to run it by other eyes. Link (so you can zoom in on images): Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
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Sexual reproduction with the beech.
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Just with extra chitin!
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Perenniporia fraxinea. To confirm, get a cross-section (small slice like a cake slice) and post the images here, though it looks it from the overall appearance of the fungus.
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Sure it was Kretz on this birch and not a species of Hypoxylon (particularly H. multiforme)? I ask as Kretz on birch is not - to my understanding - that common.
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The heat of late summer usually calls for some neofolk: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj3MhaJtayc[/ame]
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Well that mad woman was partially right about Monsanto - they're a horrible organisation that have, alongside a few others, decimated the integrity of agriculture worldwide, and subsequently human and ecosystem health.
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Kveldssanger replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Good ol' reishi! Awaitng confirmation from Kew about a find on a hornbeam stump right by where I live. Some distinctly stalked and others not. -
Had loads down in the South East. Some very big failures, too - including a massive limb of a mature oak.
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Alright leaf it out.
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Tree marriage was - and still is - something that occurs in India, with the Hindus. As in, people getting married to trees, or marrying trees to other trees. It's all related to their religion and superstition / auspicious happenings. I did laugh at the use of the word dendrophilia.
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Aye - Merip. Very sparse crown, indeed. Would probably advise to fell, in this case (though a reduction might work, if combined with mulching, crossed-fingers, and so on) - when the crown is this poor, Merip has usually caused extensive degradation via parasitism of the root plate.
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Tell the missus to leave you alone for a few days
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From the article: "Think that trees cannot communicate? Scientists from the University of Western Australia have registered the roots of grain seedlings crackling at a frequency of 220 hertz. When other seedlings’ roots were exposed to crackling at this frequency, they oriented their tips in that direction." This has to do with the frequency range of running water, I do believe, as detailed by Monica Gagliano at the latest Treeworks seminar at Kew called 'Transformational Nature'. Curiously, the very same seminar also detailed that each individual cell can 'see'. As in, it can perceive light, and discern particular shapes from said light waves.
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Had this on pre-order for months now. Looking forward to it. Having worked with trees for nearly three years directly now, my view of them has changed drastically and I find myself becoming more spiritual and pursuing ever-more esoteric topics by the day. There are more to these beasts than meets the eye, or the soul...
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It would certainly help if the idea of schooling in the West got away from the Prussian system and actually taught children how to be autonomous and think critically. Unfortunately, the state seems more bent on homogenising education (and the results of it) than it does creating intelligent individuals; at least, in state-run or state-sponsored schools. Schools, and even universities, are just echo-chambers. When kids are also taught to think with emotion and not logic, there's another serious problem. Discussions are not permitted because they might cause offence - what sort of pathetic excuse is that for not discussing something?
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Weeping beech specimens will generally layer as they age. Ensure they have a vast area to grow within, therefore. One weeping beech will eventually become a mini-copse of layered trees.
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Probably already is. Get a proper inspection done by whoever is responsible for them, or get someone in to do it, and get a plan of action down for the tree. If the crown is in evident decline, the Merip has usually sailed the beech right down to the mouth of the River Styx. The road resurfacing probably didn't help with this - would be curious to see if there are photos of the beech tree before and after. Trampling would also not help, of course.
