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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-77--571702858 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Dave, On 20-Dec-06, at 9:20 PM, David & Alison Webster wrote: > A bracket fungus that is quite common on _Populus_ (dark, > stubby, pore fungus; _Fomes_?) is my cue that the tree is too far > gone to cut for firewood, even if there is still substantial live > top. By the time those brackets have developed, most of the > heartwood will have lost ~1/2 or more of the original dry weight. Yes, this is Fomes fomentarius, a very common bracket fungus on poplar (and a great source for many fascinating species of saproxylic beetles!). All the best, Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. --Apple-Mail-77--571702858 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Dave,<DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span"><BR><DIV><DIV>On 20-Dec-06, at 9:20 PM, David = & Alison Webster wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0</SPAN>A = bracket fungus that is quite common on _Populus_ (dark, stubby, pore = fungus; _Fomes_?) is my cue that the tree is too far gone to cut for = firewood, even if there is still substantial live top. By the time those = brackets have developed, most of the heartwood will have lost ~1/2 or = more of the original dry weight.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Yes, this is <I>Fomes = fomentarius</I>, a very common bracket fungus on poplar (and a great = source for many fascinating species of saproxylic = beetles!).</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>All the best,</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris<BR><DIV> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT = face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">Christopher Majka = - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Times">1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>B3H 3A6</FONT></P> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">(902) 424-6435 <SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>Email <<A = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</A>></F= ONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times"= size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>= --Apple-Mail-77--571702858--
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