Hamadryads fungus diary

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Trametes versicolour (turkeytail)

 

Daedalea quercina- the oak mazegill

 

Arbortiporus biennis, growing on willow stump ( always in contact with ground never up off the soil.

[David Humphries]

Which site was the mazegill from?

 

 

Anty gutation on the Arbortiporus?

 

 

Good finds

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The Mazegill was right by the pond at BB on Standing dead oak, cant miss it!

 

The arborti, didnt look for gutation but was very very moist, freshly forming and in a park in harrow.

 

and thanks.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

First a confession! all above images of trametes suaveolens are probably mis identified!

 

even i get things wrong!

 

now, wanna see ganoderma resinaceum sporalating?

 

Sorry for the quality, youll have to watch closely to see it, but you can make it out, like smoke coming out of the fruiting bodies every so often a little plume comes out.

 

I will get a decent camera and do this better for next chance.

 

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[David Humphries]

You're just plain nuts lying on the floor watching cocoa powder floating about on the breeze

 

 

Interesting footage.

 

Could you make out whether the spore is ejaculating out or is it a case of the vents are open and it's just powdering out and off on the wind ?

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

When you find a species of fungi that has evolved ejaculation methods let me know!

 

all wind dispersals as far as i know of fungi, but obviously, the puff balls use rain to power the dispersal as you know.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I met up with another arbtalker today (brushcutter) as he had posted a fungi that looked rather interesting, it wasnt ischnoderma resinosum, but Inonotus cuticularis, and a bloody good example too, so thanks Andrew:thumbup1:

 

We spent a couple of hours hunting up around the ashridge estate, and I am truly stunned by the fact ive been so close to this part of the estate but missed it all these years. i shall be going back sunday to get you all the shots I missed for a lack of light!

Inonotus dryadeus

Peniophora lycii

Inonotus cuticularis

Aminita fulva

inonotus nodulosus (to be confirmed)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Another shot from the lower portion of that Inonotus cuticularis group, the freshest fruits ive found to date, and due to the form diplayed here took me a while to recognise them. interestingly, as in burnham beeches, i found some Pholiota aurivella stipes hanging down way up in the cavity out of sight. An increasingly common companion to inonotus cuticularis in my observations. Due to having been up in the cavity and in a dry environment these had gone hard and woody, and at first i thought i was feeling and pulling out twigs! which explains Aurivellas long lasting black stipe remains on many beeches, they appear to have some resilience to degradation. Ive layed them down along the bottom of the image for illustration.

[David Humphries]

That is indeed a fine example

 

 

had beter get it on the directory.

 

 

 

 

 

Those dryads look almost as good as the ones in kent?

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That is indeed a fine example

 

 

had beter get it on the directory.

 

Those dryads look almost as good as the ones in kent?

 

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I thought you might! shall post a few others later.

 

As for the dryads, they was pretty, but not even 6 on a 10 scale in comparisome to those we found in kent.

 

The number of Oaks that I now know of colonised by inonotus dryadeus beggars belief, and at least half are very long term colonisations. We are getting a good show lately of all the fungi, recent years have been kind to many a fung hunter!