Hamadryads fungus diary

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Now that ive got plenty of Clitocybe nebularis to re visit I am hopoing to very soon present to you the "piggy back rosegill" volvariella surecta, a small bombycina like species found on decaying fruit bodies of C. nebularis, and as cool a fungi as one could hope to ever find.

 

If I find this fungus, my life would be almost complete:lol: except for erinaceus, and a few thousand others!

 

I also found the horn of plenty today, just as my battery went! so back tommorow on the way home to get that in the bag!

 

[Bundle 2]

Something makes that Phlebia radiata very hard to focus on...I'm guessing it is ever so slightly "furry" .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Something makes that Phlebia radiata very hard to focus on...I'm guessing it is ever so slightly "furry" .

 

nah, its a hand held shot in low light!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I found this on sunday in Burnham beeches, hadnt posted it till now as I wanted to be absolutley certain of its identity, there are two others that it can be mistaken for, and one of the recent poisonings (awaiting kidney transplants) was mistaken for this The Chanterelle

 

Now i know the differences i wonder how the mistake was made:confused1:

 

DONT EAT WILD FUNGI- unless you know EXACTLY what your doing!

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

As promised i went back to shoot the horn of plenty-Craterellus cornucopioides

 

With limited light and time Im afraid it isnt the perfect image, but you can see what this fungi looks like and I guess thats the main thing!

 

These chanterelle fungi are interesting as the gills are in fact NOT gills, they are merely folds in the cap flesh, and apparentley all fungi with false gills are edible, hence my wondering how the previously mention poisoning came to happen?

 

Also a pair of images just for my old partner in crime mr humphries, this the third seperate location now within WW hosting the benzoin bracket, cool as and a big help in my continuing battle to have the site upgraded to SAC

 

The bezoinum is so far on three seperate strata, Sitka spruce, Lawson cypress and in this image pinus sylvestris (i think!)

 

 

 

Edited October 6, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[David Humphries]

Any top surface shots of the benzoin, Tony?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Any top surface shots of the benzoin, Tony?

 

 

[David Humphries]

Thought perhaps as you're starting to reach the middle ages, that you may have forgotten

 

 

You not going to the Rackham gig tonight then.

 

Starts in an hour !

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

well as xerxses is staying for a day or two and this house is basicaly a building site i thought I ought to have a bit of a sort out before he arrives!

 

ive got a suprise for him saturday morning, he is, nah were going to have a blinding day foraying saturday!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I met up with Xerxses this weekend and on saturday we traveled up to kent to meet Cutter1 to see a rather special fungi, I had not expected anything more, this was enough for even the Hamas discerning fungal lust:lol:

 

However, i was shown not one but two of my most desired brackets, and we even found a new Geastrum species (new to me) and unbekown to me this turnd out to be one of the most wanted fungi of xerxses, he was extatic and I was so pleased, his excitment at this find was priceless:thumbup1:

 

Cutter1 took me to a Fomes fomentarius, and it has to be said I was as giddy as a school boy and i couldnt have asked for more, Cutter1, your are a scholar my man, and I owe you one.

 

We also came across what is for me a VERY special find, a bracket that i came across in my beloved Whippedell woods some years back, and have long been puzzled by. I am still none the wiser, but this example has given me a great insight into this brackets lifestyle and alternative form. I have a slice to send of to kew and with luck the mystery (7 year itch) will soon be resolved:001_cool: The photos of this will come in the next entry as i can only do 5 images at a time.