UK Ganoderma complex

[David Humphries]

17 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Thought of you the other day at Blenheim palace.  Passed a beech tree riddled with about a million different fungi but was unable to stop for a photo. You probably have one of it anyway ?

Fail !

[Mark J]

The beech is in the middle of nearby woods, it's one of my favourite trees.  The other one is on a hedgerow ash in the other direction. Hungry fungi.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Mark J

[David Humphries]

the suspected G. carnosum has been assessed at microscopic level and currently can't be seperated from G. lucidum due to fairly similar spore size, although some micro features lean it towards carnosum. A sample is being sent to the Jodrell laboratory at Kew for sequencing to try and determine which it is. Oddly enough there is an American Ganoderma species (G. oregonense) that also shares very similar features and apparantly there is a specimen at Kew that was sequenced to be very close to oregonense. 

 

Will update when I hear back.

 

In the meantime, here is Ganoderma lucidum (with Gymnopus fusipes also in attendance) on hornbeam in north London yesterday.