{"id":2621,"date":"2018-09-17T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/2018\/09\/wood-decay-fungi\/"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:24:34","slug":"wood-decay-fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/2018\/09\/wood-decay-fungi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood-Decay Fungi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran tree expert and enthusiast, Jim Mullholland, walks through the 19th century Torthworth Arboretum describing some of the examples of wood-decay fungi he finds there, including `Chicken of the Woods` (Laetiporus sulphureus) and `Beefsteak Fungus` (Fistulina hepatica). Jim explains how a wood-decay fungus is classified in various different ways depending on the type of decay it causes - such as the crumbly, cubicle brown rot or the more spongy white rot that breaks down the lignin in the wood. He tells us how a fungus does not necessarily lead to the destruction of the tree; that fruiting bodies of certain fungi can be extremely useful for wildlife; and recommends a limit to the size and number of wounds on a tree so that it is less likely for decay to set in. http:\/\/tortwortharboretum.org ; http:\/\/www.ancienttreeforum.co.uk\/  . An Adliberate film http:\/\/www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran tree expert and enthusiast, Jim Mullholland, walks through the 19th century Torthworth Arboretum describing some of the examples of wood-decay fungi he finds there, including `Chicken of the Woods` (Laetiporus sulphureus) and `Beefsteak Fungus` (Fistulina hepatica). Jim explains how a wood-decay fungus is classified in various different ways depending on the type of decay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}