Geotropic fungi

[sean]

I've so got to go there. I've been reading a lot about it lately. One day😄

[David Humphries]

I've so got to go there. I've been reading a lot about it lately. One day😄

 

Make it so

 

I've got some good contacts, I'll pm you

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Nice shots there of a Fomes (and the rest, too).

 

Interested also (seriously). Going with the missus to the Redwood Forests next year (most probably), though also keen to go over to Poland.

[David Humphries]

Fine set of gravitropic Fomes from the Bialowieza forest....

 

just noticed this example of the red banded polypore (Fomitopsis pinicola) from my files from the same Bialowieza trip, this one Mr Fay snapped

 

 

Looks quite like Ganoderma lucidum

 

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[Khriss]

I thought that goetropism was the action of roots, i.e. they grow down into the earth. The oposite to phototropism, where plants grow towards the sun.

Although i am renowned for getting things wrong.

P.S. the top two photo look like they come from outer space.

 

....an you may be closer to the truth than you think , look up meteorite carrying amino acid molecules, a huge amount on Nasa links , plus 'The Andromeda Strain' was a bloody good read , K

 

( Obvs fungi spores could not be transported as re-entry heat will do em -but ....who is to say )

[David Humphries]

Judging by the incremental re-aligned geotropic growth of this G. australe, it looks like this beech went over about 4 years ago.

 

 

[Marula]

Really interesting[emoji1360]. Perhaps it evolved that way so that once inevitable failure occurred the spread of the pathogens spores wouldn't be effected?

[Gary Prentice]

1 hour ago, SWORDSTA said:

Really interesting. Perhaps it evolved that way so that once inevitable failure occurred the spread of the pathogens spores wouldn't be effected?

 

Once the orientation of the host tree changed, geotropism caused adaptation of the FFB as David said. 

 

It would be nice if FFBs changed a few years before stem/root failure. We'd be able to predict how safe trees were, without resistographs and the Picus, just by looking at the orientation

[Gary Prentice]

On 23/08/2017 at 15:17, David Humphries said:

Judging by the incremental re-aligned geotropic growth of this G. australe, it looks like this beech went over about 4 years ago.

 

 

 

 

Nice photo.

 

Do you ever get the urge to stand the trunk back up (upside down) just for the hell of it to start another layer in the opposite direction?

[David Humphries]

1 hour ago, Gary Prentice said:

Nice photo.

 

Do you ever get the urge to stand the trunk back up (upside down) just for the hell of it to start another layer in the opposite direction?

Of course I do................is that kinda of strange of summit?