Fungi ID

[Patrick goulding]

Could anyone tell me what fungi this is and if it’s a bad apple 🍏 the fungi was at the base of a beech tree where I was severing some ivy. Thanks 🙏 

[Paul in the woods]

They look to me to be old Shaggy Scalycaps. Pholiota squarrosa. Worth looking at a stem and ideally a younger specimen if you find one.

Pholiota squarrosa, Shaggy Scalycap Mushroom

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[Patrick goulding]

2 hours ago, Paul in the woods said:

They look to me to be old Shaggy Scalycaps. Pholiota squarrosa. Worth looking at a stem and ideally a younger specimen if you find one.

Pholiota squarrosa, Shaggy Scalycap Mushroom

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There was just the 3 pieces I thought it was a scaly polypore?

[Patrick goulding]

Are scaly caps bad news?

[Paul in the woods]

3 minutes ago, Patrick goulding said:

There was just the 3 pieces I thought it was a scaly polypore?

The tops do look a bit like Polyporus Squamosus – (Dryads Saddle/Scaly Polypore) but you can clearly see gills in the fist pic and not pores.

 

I can't advise on what it'll do to the tree, there's some old threads that may help.

[Patrick goulding]

Just now, Paul in the woods said:

The tops do look a bit like Polyporus Squamosus – (Dryads Saddle/Scaly Polypore) but you can clearly see gills in the fist pic and not pores.

 

I can't advise on what it'll do to the tree, there's some old threads that may help.

Cheers thanks 

[Patrick goulding]

On 08/11/2021 at 16:26, Paul in the woods said:

The tops do look a bit like Polyporus Squamosus – (Dryads Saddle/Scaly Polypore) but you can clearly see gills in the fist pic and not pores.

 

I can't advise on what it'll do to the tree, there's some old threads that may help.

Hi what about these pictures thanks

[Patrick goulding]

[Paul in the woods]

Still looks like Pholiota squarrosa to me. There's a good photo in the description of the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholiota_squarrosa

 

Did you see this old thread? Discussion of what it might do to the tree.

 

[Patrick goulding]

I’ve just read it thanks for your info 👍