Tony Croft

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Ramaria stricta (the upright coral)		Inonotus hispidus (the shaggy bracket)		Peziza aurantia (the orange peel funus)
Ischnoderma benzoinum (benzoin bracket)		Sarcocypha coccinea (the scarlet cup)		Laetiporus sulphureus (chicken of the woods)
Laetiporus sulphureus (chicken of the woods)		Laetiporus sulphureus (chicken of the woods)		Laetiporus sulphureus (chicken of the woods)
				Photos by Tony Croft
Macrolepiota procera The field parasol		Meripilus giganteus (the giant polypore)

I am an arboriculturist and work with trees everyday, mostly working in or on them via a rope and harness! Since I was 15years old, I'm now 39! so 24 years or thereabouts!

I am extremely passionate about fungi and arbor-ecology, and have a website called www.arb-mycota.com which I am currently developing, so it's a bit basic at the moment.

I am also writing two books (long term projects!) both on fungi in relation to trees, and currently doing some field research on auricularia mesenterica A.K.A the tripe fungi.

A certified VTA ( visual tree assessment) practitioner attained under Prof Claus himself so the "body language of trees" is a rather specialist skill of mine and one of the major draws to the ancient tree for me as I revel in decifering the expressions in the ancient tree forms.

John Croft
AKA the hamadryad