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150 year old beech tree
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echinosum wrote: Rusty Hinge 2;818362 Wrote: Looks like a Giant Polypore a bit past its sell-by date: Meripilus giganteus If it is, it's common, and I haven't heard of it as a destructive fungus. I repeat, ask in alt.nature.mushrooms - you WILL get chapter and verse there. It is a fungus I associate with stumps of trees that are already dead. Maybe that is suggestive of something. It is. Such fungi attack only dead wood, but that includes the heartwood. The only harm that they do to trees is to reduce their structural integrity - as mentioned, oak has coadapted to that, and such fungal attack actually INCREASES its structural integrity. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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