No, I am happy to say that it is not this one that we met few days ago. It is still lording it over the boating pond.
Our fallen tree is in the woods on other side of the heath but, from the size of its branches now spreadeagled over the hillside, it appears to have been no less majestic.
I think it must have succumbed to the storm winds earlier in the week but, from the look of its trunk, it may have been a disaster waiting to happen.
This is the base of trunk close up and you can see that there is a massive hole filled by rotten wood and fungus.
The wood of the fallen branches where they have sheared is discoloured and is run through with filaments of who knows what.
Other broken branches also look more brittle than I feel they should….
And where the bark has flaked off the wood beneath looks almost inflamed.
And what of this massive orifice? What could not have got in there to poison it from within?
None the less, it is very magnificent in its ruin…..
What a shame that we can no longer have open wood fires in London. What castles in the flames could you have built from burning some of those logs.
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Sad. It looks like Honey Fungus. The spores are highly dangerous to those with an imperfect liver.
I was made extremely sick by fungal spore poisoning, which defied many NHS doctors.
A friend suggested a take colloidal silver which cured me within hours, as it’s the most splendid fungicide, antibiotic and antiviral. (Why oh why has it not been trialled against Covid-19?).
Does anyone know if honey fungus and the dust from crumbling oak beams cause the same problem?
Thank you for your lovely photos etc, Michelle, they cheer up my day!
I wonder if you are right, David – it certainly looks like something fairly lethal. The question is, would colloidal silver have worked on a tree? And why indeed have they not tried it on COVID?…. So glad you are enjoying the pictures. M
I love seeing all your photos Michelle. I also like to read about the history of the various places you walk through. It has made me want to visit the heath next time I get a chance to travel to London, whenever that may be.
I’m so glad, Margaret – and yes please do come and see us on the heath – if ever we are allowed to travel again!!!
It’s more of a question concerning soil minerals with trees I suspect. Many of our soils have become depleted of essential minerals, as I have pointed out in a new article on Selenium for Positive Health Online, due out 11 June.
In the US and other countries, basalt rock dust is being used to replenish soils as it contains some 80 minerals and trace elements. There was the SEER Centre (Sustainable Ecological Earth Regeneration) near Pitlochry in the Highlands where they were pioneering such work but has now closed down. See ReMineralize.com – Cameron Thomson eulogy, by Don Weaver.
Colloidal silver is for people and animals as an antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral. I have been taking it for three years and I’ve not had a cold, flu or flu jab during that time, but it’s never been trialled against Covid-19.
I suspect it’s a secret BigPharma and the medical mafia want to keep secret as it would ruin many chemical/medical companies if it was discovered how incredibly useful it is. see Drs Bob Beck and Robert Becker, and health journalist SteveBarwick.com https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Drs+Bob+Beck+and+Robert+Becker%2C&t=chromentp&atb=v215-1&ia=web