Hamadryads fungus diary

[Gollum]

same as the one i posted on Sunday

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

same as the one i posted on Sunday

 

i dont follow, you mean you posted a similar fungus to the hericium this sunday? do you, can you add the link here:001_cool:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

chancesed2.jpg from n3t.net - StumbleUpon

[RobArb]

now thats a shroom!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Remember this one david? stavertons, took me some time to be 100%

 

Peziza sepiatra

 

[David Humphries]

Remember this one david? stavertons, took me some time to be 100%

 

Peziza sepiatra

 

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Ah, the one next to the wee lucidums on the log in the thicks.

 

I gave up on that a little while after Stav.

 

Found that both Jordans & Phillips didn't have it listed as a Peziza from their phots.

 

Which reference have you checked it against?

 

 

 

 

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[Bundle 2]

Firstly the tree, a failure from thursday in those high winds, this poor womans car was trashed on her way home.... by a falling tree, she got away fine, but some damage to the car, onlt to find this on arriving home!

 

Damn...that's some luck....! The risk we mange from trees is very low.The odds on her experiences that day must be pretty minimal. Blessed or cursed..?

What did she do in a previous life I wonder ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Found that both Jordans & Phillips didn't have it listed as a Peziza from their photos.

 

Which reference have you checked it against?

 

Gerrit. J. keizer "Mushrooms (the complete encyclopedia)" ISBN 90 366 1598 4

 

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peziza sepiatra-

 

Fr flattened saucer shaped, 0.5-1cm. Inner surface greyish brown to black brown. outer surface clayey, sepia, with slightly protruding, serrated margin. On humous soil in broadleaved woods.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I had one of those finds today, absolutley pucka, and now I can put these trametes to bed. 7 years of looking at them, getting to know them thier habits, and preferences but most importantly thier field identification characteristics.

 

youll note in previous threads, and this one, ive had some trouble with these four, Im not including the other trametes in this, just these 3 which have taken me a long time to study and work out. You see, one find does not a master make, and these "discoveries" are what keep me hunting them down like a madman, every time its like some discovery of a long lost jigsaw piece you find hidden under that cushion! it was the aditional Lenzites that was causing the problems:blushing:

 

The other thing that makes this work so problematic is "understanding" EXACTLY what taxonomist mean when they say "pubescent" or hairy as apposed to "felty" youll see the difference in a while! When presented like this, i know its obvious, but when you havent the field experience believe me it is not at all obvious!

 

So, the 3 principle trametes all very similar in form colour etc but at long last i feel now 100% confident in field identification, and believe me, that is an art in itself! Mr lenzites has had me on a merry go round for some time!

 

Why did the lenzites make this so hard, well it parasitises the mycelium of Trametes sp, so they can be on the same tree!

 

These lot will no longer be pulling any wool over my eyes!

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Well this year just keeps on delivering- this month has seen me resolve a few long standing fungal mysteries, and allowed me to appreciate their ecologies intimatley. I have found once again that a major stumbling block is poorly identified images that are sold by photographers, compounding identification issues, ( ive mis labbeled images, but not sold them! nor would I less 100% certain) one of these is Inonotus nodulosus. This fungi carries a common name that i could not relate to those i found that appeared similar to those images i had come to know through publications, here "the silvery pore crust" is as i know it to be. These are the major inonotus varieties with the exception of I.rheades which is to all intents and purposes identical to Inonotus hispidus but has a brown spore print as apposed to the bright sulphur yellow spores of hispidus. If you discover I. rheades please contact me as I would very much like to record this variety to complete my "knowledge" I. tomentosus is another.

 

I have also found a wonderful site that is a great resource for images Fungus Gallery

 

So here are the family as I know them, I hope this helps others in some way as it takes many years to get this familiar with fungi I radiatus a lover of old growth alder, nodulosus confind to beech with cuticularis prefering beech but also found amoung acers such as sacharinum, dryadeus and hispidus can be found on many broadleafs and dryadeus is said to be one of the few that can also host within conifers though as yet i have not seen this personaly. I once saw a report that claimed I. dryadeus was the agent of decay in a horse chestnut, but the tree showed no evidence that I connected with dryadeus, usualy and commonly occuring on quercus varieties.

 

all the above IME and I may be wrong, apologies if in future, this all proves to be total BS:lol:

 

Hama hardcore:rock:

 

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Edited December 12, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad