you mean the entire thickness of the rope like structure crumbled in your hand or just the funny flaky looking grey flat pieces ?
is this going from the earth upwards? was this on several trees or only on this one? If its just the flaky grey things climbing up the ropes... ist choice....fungal colonies? If you are going back , then ....very gingerly cut a piece with very sharp knives and put piece in 10% formalin and give it to some histology lab to do histology slides if possible, fungus will show up very nicely... are you by any chance going back? second thing I just thought of was ... could it be ash? like what if there was a short duration fire and the bark(?) on the aerial roots burned but did not fall down, and the fire itself was of self limiting nature. Far fetched scenario but it could happen. third some weird LICHEN that I dont know anything about.. usually they are flat and dont really crumble easily. There is one stick/root behind your or someone's head in one of the pictures.. look they are flat colonies... fourth... some sort of sap... non-resinous, dried out and so crumbled easily. fifth: some insects like the termites or their cousins are living inside and this is their poop...along with wood dust they discarded... well I cant think anymore... reached my limit of weirdness.. lets hear from some plant pathologists they would know for sure... its perhaps something very simple... and obvious ... to the person who knows... usha di *Gurcharanji Vijay Shrikant Radha and Satish I* included u in this because I am hoping you either know this or know a plant pathologist... please help I am now very curious to know this ... On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > This was growing not unlike prop roots but from a very large and old liana > in an evergreen forest. When I caught hold of one it crumbled in my hand. I > checked, but it had no clear internal structure. > > Date: March 2015 > Place: Aralam WLS, Kerala > Habit from which this growing: Liana > Habitat: Evergreen forest > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
