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  1. Kveldssanger
    5. On the way to Exbury Gardens, just after I drove through Beaulieu, I spotted an oak with two large brackets around 1m up the main stem. I managed to turn around and park up, though couldn't get too close to the tree as it was in private land protected by barbed wire fencing. Alas, I did get some shots, of which the following show a mature Quercus robur host to Pseudoinonotus dryadeus (syn: Inonotus dryadeus). Nice sporophores!
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    4. Right near the car park for the Knightwood Oak (on the same side as the car park, right by the road) sat this multi-stemed Fagus sylvatica. Driving along at 20mph allowed me to scan the roadside area for cool trees with fungi, and I had to pull over for this one. We can see some nice Rigidoporus ulmarius around the remnants of an old stem, and also some very small activity within the upper wall of the large cavity.
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    3. In the arboretum at Bolderwood, which is generally a stand of various species of conifer (P. menziesii, C. deodara, P. nigra, S. giganteum, T. baccata, and so on), stood this quite sorry-looking yew tree. The three sizeable sets of Laetiporus sulphureus probably haven't helped in this regard. You wouldn't catch me cooking these up either, as there's a chance I'd kill myself in the process, given the fungus is feasting on the wholly toxic (to humans) yew!
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    2. In the core of the New Forest is the Knightwood Oak, which is the largest oak in the New Forest. I went up to this one just expecting to see a huge oak, but was also greeted by a nice deck of Laetiporus sulphureus along a major limb with significant damage. Fresh as can be, were these sporophores! Great to see such an important tree host to fungi, though that's hardly to be unexpected, given its age and size.
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    Just come back from a week in the New Forest. Plenty of fungi - namely Ganoderma spp. (applanatum and australe), Laetiporus sulphureus, and Fistulina hepatica, though also some others. I will post the cool ones below, over the series of a few posts. 1. An 18th century Cedrus libani, in the grounds near the house at Exbury (Exbury Gardens), host to Phaeolus schweinitzii. I had been searching for this bugger all week in the coniferous plantations in the New Forest (including Bolderwood), but found nothing. On the last day, by pure chance, I found it chilling around 10m up this cedar of Lebanon. Not expected, but certainly really awesome to see. Not sure how common the association is with these species in the UK.
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    It's not a bad thing. However, it won't have an impact upon the host tree, which is likely harbouring mycelium in increasing abundance over time. Ganoderma association on mature beech is also profusely common in the UK and usually ends in rather glorious failure at some point down the line, and the number of Ganoderma sporophores on the whole means treating one bracket is unlikely to even reduce the risk of infection to other trees, let alone the host tree. It appears an exercise in futility, therefore.
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    My impression from the abstract there is that it can limit the rate of spores germinating - it basically makes sporophores produce fewer 'fertile' spores. This would thus have little to no impact upon the host tree, which internally would harbour swathes of mycelium, unimpacted by the treatment.
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    Typical! Pardon the cynicism, but the chances of the local tree surgeon knowing much about decay caused by Inonotus hispidus is slim, and particularly if they're going for a cheap option or the "fell it, mate" approach.
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    Seen it on Sorbus intermedia but never Sorbus aria. Nice.
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    Too busy at work at the moment to get to the one in Cambridge (Barcham) that was today, and am on holiday for the Bristol one. Bleh!
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    With a new fence like that I'd more likely expect to see saprophytic genera (such as Coprinus spp.) around the base of the tree, or feasting upon subterranean deadwood from where roots were severed.
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    Probably others as well, though I couldn't say for certain.
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    Indeed it can. Trametes versicolor can as well. In fact, many saprophytic fungi outcompete the parasitic honey fungus (A. mellea).
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    But is this tree not stood in a low target area, as you said before? Having such a black and white approach that is the tree either stays in its entirety or goes in its entirety is bizarre; particularly in such a situation where the target zone might not be too significant. Exactly why can't it be monolithed? You could even just leave a stem of a few metres. That suits the provisioning of habitat for Rigidoporus, which creates a great brown rot for invertebrates, and also other fungi, bacteria, and viruses. You could even plant near to it as have this stump then provide for nutrients for the vegetation around it. If it's for amenity reasons then surely some expalanation to residents wouldn't mean it's an issue. Particularly as it's 'green' and pro-environment, so to speak. Not to take away from your ideas, as they're perfectly reasonable - just a different take on it.
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    Scope to monolith? Seems wasteful to fell it when it's great habitat for, at the very least, the Rigidoporus.
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    Looks it. Good old stumpgrinder fungus.
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    It's always a matter of disgust to see such valuable habitat get destroyed, with a whimsical justification of "well humans needs somewhere to live". So does everything else, and when development takes over habitat for other organisms is challenged. Of course, that's the elephant in the room, or the taboo subject. Anyway, it's refreshing to know Reg is helping create new pollards. I note managers are doing the same in Epping, where hornbeam of a young age are being pollarded. A great revitalisation of traditional practice, no question. Hopefully it gains for traction, regardless of why - be it cultural, ecological, economic, or otherwise. Is that paper open access?
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    Absolutely. Gives them all a level of protection they didn't have before! May potentially even change the way the site is managed? Do they have future veteran oaks they're pollarding on the site, or is the twilight generation of oaks? Will certainly try to get up there at some point. Between Windsor, the Heath, Oxfordshire, New Forest (going again week after next), and other places, I'll get there at some point hah. All the fungi I'm finding around here are Ganoderma resinaceum and Inonotus hispidus, at the moment...! And a fair bit of Rigidoporus, too. The ecology of P. quercinus is curious, too. Quite a poor competitor, I understand. Likes open wounds as well, typically sizeable areas of exposed heartwood. Did you collect any spore from the bracket for lab research? Would certainly be an idea to stockpile spore of the fungus, given its rarity.
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    Saw that on ATF's twitter. Great find!!
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    Any possibility of phoenix regeneration? Admit I've never seen it on HC, and I can't see in the images if the entire root plate severed. Keen to see if the Rigidoporus now acts saprophytically along the trunk.
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    I remember those! Shame that one has now fallen, though it was largely inevitable!
  22. Kveldssanger
    Here's some studies on this matter: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=plane+tree+asthma&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=
  23. Kveldssanger
    Graze it.
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    All sorted.
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    :thumbup1: Good stuff!

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