In a message dated 29/12/2006 08:17:39 GMT Standard Time,
Edmund.Hopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk writes:
We get it in our wood on the old birch, but only in smallish
numbers, whereas Piptoporus is ubiquitous. Has it reached the home counties
yet, maybe it was always there?
Strange. I wandered round the Major OAk with Ted Green a coupla years ago
and there seemed to be more Fomes than Piptoporus round there. In our local
Ecclesall Woods we see plenty of Pipto but barely a Fomes that I can think
of.
It might suggest something about how the local woods were managed? I mean
removal of dead wood was routine in some Sheffield Parks/woods up until
enlightenment maybe some 20 years ago. And all sorts of iffy tree felling
went on
during the miner's strike.
Bill.
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