Hamadryads big phat fungi thread!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

neobulgaria pura var "foliacea" no common name?

exidia thuretiana. black version is called witches butter so maybe this could be angels butter! no name common known to me!

Calocera viscosa, yellow stags horn, i think is the common name

Piptoporus quercinus the oak polypore, very rare and protected, one of my favourite finds.

Coprinus comatus common inkcap (one in earlier post miss labelled, my bad)

Edited January 25, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[sean]

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i see got the hump now have ya???? Now we get NO names:confused1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

i see got the hump now have ya???? Now we get NO names:confused1:

 

No! I post em then add names in edit so i can see them and be sure to add right names etc! thats why you saw pics without names, look above now!

[sean]

neobulgaria....known as beech jelly disc

[sean]

exidia thuretiana....white brain?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

FONT="Arial"]laccaria Amethystina[/font] Amethyst deciever, usualy found under fagus sylvatica-beech trees.

Hypholoma fasciculare the sulphur tuft

Aminita muscaria the fly agaric, A mycorhiza of larch cedar and birch

Inonotus cuticularis no common name known to me? white rot decay fungus infrequent, but common in Burnham beeches

Edited January 25, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[sean freeman]

Beautiful pics, love the colour of the laccaria Amethystina~Amethyst deciever, I especially like the pic of the Aminita muscaria~fly agaric mainly because of the Mycena sp hiding to the side diligently working away breaking down the leaf and woody debris...hardest workers in the forest:001_cool:

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Beautiful pics, love the colour of the laccaria Amethystina~Amethyst deciever, I especially like the pic of the Aminita muscaria~fly agaric mainly because of the Mycena sp hiding to the side diligently working away breaking down the leaf and woody debris...hardest workers in the forest:001_cool:

 

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Thats an amazing bit of observation considering I never noticed it myself! was propably so excited at finding mint condition A.muscaria I failed to notice it and still failed even looking at these photos till you pointed it out!

 

I havent looked at the mycena's much, have noticed they are able to break down tough old sativa stumps though, and theres not much that can deal with that wood!

 

I have a pic of another mycena I found showing its bright i think its pink mycelium, will try and dig it out from the vaults!

Edited January 26, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[Xerxses]

It would be nice if you could acess a/z of fungi by tree type, with maybe a paralel resource giving an outline of how pathonogenic each fungi is regards the tree,or am I asking too much!

 

Now were talking!!!!! (ARBTALKING!!!!!)

 

This site is just GGGGRRRRREEEAT!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Inonotus hispidus (The shaggy bracket)

 

This ones a bit on the aggresive side, and is highly infectious in dense stands, often being frequent in a particular area. It infects Fraxinus excelsior predominantly (Common Ash) though is also found on many other broadleafs including apple and London plane. It is a well documented fungus, so i wont go into too much detail here, but here are some images to act as a reference.

 

Trees infected (ash) can often be spotted from a great distance if your familiar with what to look for, as dead wood sections are often the first sign of problems at late stages of colonisation. The tree below I spotted whilst walking with the dog one day, I had a gut feeling and had to walk a fair way to get to it. Whilst trying to stand on the buttreses to elavate myself to shoot the bracket I found to my utter horror that Hornets had found the cavity a good home! needless to say we both ran like the wind and this is the best I could do from a safe distance!

 

 

This group of matured and aging fruit bodies show the bright yellow spore print associated with this Fungus.

 

 

Believe it or not they went unoticed by anyone, despite being on a busy highway and next to a building site, well on its boundry, how was this missed in the arb survey?

 

 

Finaly here is a cross section of an ash stem with very late stage decay, penetration of barrier zoning is obvious and so to is the callous forming at another typical feature of the strategy of hispidus, necrosis/canker.

 

Edited January 26, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad