Hamadryads fungus diary

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Being in Cornwall this week I am looking forward to finding a few new species, for now heres a few from my back country B road trip down. My first sighting of Laetiporus sulphureus on Yew, A rather massive chestnut with Rigidiporus ulmarius and Polyporus squamosus:biggrin:

 

[David Humphries]

Travelling fungelbury alert

 

Any targets on the HC?

 

Hope you're spending some time with the folks

 

 

 

 

 

 

.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Travelling fungelbury alert

 

Any targets on the HC?

 

Hope you're spending some time with the folks

 

.

 

Of course I spent time with the folks! LOL as if! me and the old man did a fair bit of fishing and also some exploring, was a great holiday all round.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Whilst down in somerset this week I found some rather interesting tree/fungi relationships, unfortunatley due to light (on a bat course) and time i didnt get a shot of the benzoin group on a large sessile oak.

 

But what i did get was this interesting group, most unusual to see such a diverse range in such close proximity and I can only put this down to being at such an elevation that wind blown spores created this situation.

 

Three oaks within a line and only 100ft apart at most, One with inonotus dryadeus, then Ganoderma resinaceum and last one in line with perenniporia fraxinea.

 

This is unusual as i find that in most woodland scenarios there is a dominant stem or root fungi which often excludes most others, often finding other fungi infrequently on a site that is dominated by the major player.

 

So here are the fungi, and what a great place to take a PTI on! there was also laetiporus close by, fistulina, hispidus as well!

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

Fungtastimajoria

 

 

Haven't come across any Fista yet this year.

 

Pereni on Oaks' a rare find for sure.

 

.

[David Humphries]

Youll like this one, Ive seen it mislabbeled elswhere in the forum, but now I have a clear set of images to illustrate the differences between these two almost identical fungi.

 

Polyporus tuberaster distinguished visualy by its usualy smaller size and most importantly centralised stipe. yeah bet you all thought it was squamosus! lol

 

So.....tuberaster or squamosus then?

 

Will be going back to see how it developes.

 

 

.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

squamosus.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

As you have all no doubt noticed, since the early flushers and the early laetiporus samples it went a little quiet on the fungi front, this was to be expected. one things for certain though, while they was not out to play, during this hot dry spell they will have been on the march down every dessication crack avaliable!

 

The warm weather lovers have come out in force, and my diary wouldnt be right without a good sample of the most heat loving fungi of them all, Inonotus hispidus. ive also got a nice sample of Inonotus dryadeus along with a few others.

 

I spotted these brackets yesterday, doing a bit of recon for our Monkey D:thumbup1: This evening i simply HAD to go back with a rope and harness, you lot would expect nothing less of me!

 

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

Tree-mendous effort Hama

 

It has to be said, hispidus is a darn pretty bracket in it's early stages.

 

 

 

 

I know that just dont sound right

 

 

 

.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

A rather nice little inonotus dryadeus

 

a huge and happy pair of Colybia fusipes on fagus sylvatica

and a re shoot of some ganoderma applanatums on a lightning struck lime