lombardy polplar fungi id help please

[jimmylad]

hello all.

hopeing someone maybe able to assist me with this one. i'm doing a assignment (i'm a studant afraid) on some poplars we have on site and i have found a few fungi that i can not identifey and so was hopeing that someone mey be able to at least give me some ideas as to what they are. i've gone through a fair few books already and havent really got anywere (i did think th yellow bracket type one was climacodon septentrionale but i'm now i doudt on that) anyway, as i say any help or pointers as to what they could be would be great.

if it helps, the poplars are around 50-55 years old and so pretty close to their use by date.

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many thanks all and safe climbing

 

jay

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

this looks like (poor photos for identification) laetiporos. however there is another fungi it could be but doubt it VERY much, is this out now? in other words, is this a warm weather fruiter or a winter fruiter?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

can you describe the rot? is it wet and spongy or brown and powdery? are ther lots of white stains throught the wood?

[jimmylad]

hi hamadryad, thanks for the quick reply. yep these pic's were taken all within the last week. i can quite happly get some more pic's (hopefully of a better quality) if you'd like.

again thanks.

 

jay

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

hi hamadryad, thanks for the quick reply. yep these pic's were taken all within the last week. i can quite happly get some more pic's (hopefully of a better quality) if you'd like.

again thanks.

 

jay

 

if you can pull out a lump of the decay from above the ground(wet level) and photograph a fruitbody torn or cut in half with the spore surface showing, then i will be happy to be certain!

 

Sorry i cant be 100% at the mo, it just isnt easy from these images.

[jimmylad]

hi again hamadryad, as to the rot, forgive me i'm new to this and i'm still learning, i'm quessing that you mean the first picture?

again many thanks

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

yes top image suggests a stringy rot, not what you would expect from Laetiporus or chicken of the woods, however in image three you see white mycelia which you do associate with chicken especialy withing the rays.

 

Image two is iether a different species to image four, or this is not chicken at all as chicken breaks down to a white chalky substance AND is a warm fruiter.

 

But nothing appears too concrete in mycology! I ahve a hispidus bracket that looks odd, possibly due to late (cold) fruiting, it typicaly appears from august to october when the temps are high and humidity is just begining to build

[jimmylad]

hi hamadryad, i'll pop down to the poplars tomorrow morning and get some better pics of that yellow one in image 4.

as to image one and four, sorry i should have said that they are not on the same tree. the only thing consistant between all the trees is woodworm.

thanks again, and i am very impressed, in five minutes you've been able to guide me fantastically and i've been trying to find out this on my own for almost two weeks now! top marks that man!

 

jay

[jimmylad]

hi all, heys another interesting one i found on the poplars today. any ideas as to what it could be?