If you go down to the woods today.........

[David Humphries]

David,

2. Quite exceptional, such a long and well developed stem.

 

 

Check this cows tongue.

 

Was a delicate operation to extract this fista from it's lair.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

David,

3. I think it might be L. molle.

 

I think the specimen in that shot was too tall for L. molle from the books i've read from.

 

Here are a couple more from the same area, have put a short (6cm) pencil next to them for scale.

 

I'm of the mind that they are probably L. excipuliforme due to height.

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thats a pretty impressive fistulina Daviid!

[mdvaden]

Check this cows tongue.

 

Was a delicate operation to extract this fista from it's lair.

 

 

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That thing looks like a big chunk of driftwood.

 

What are you going to do with it? Dry it and mount it?

 

[David Humphries]

That thing looks like a big chunk of driftwood.

 

What are you going to do with it? Dry it and mount it?

 

 

 

Hadn't looked at it like that.

 

 

It's long time gone, as this was from three years ago Mario.

It was only that Gerrit made a comment which made me look back at my Fistulina folder.

 

Haven't come across Fistulina with such a long stem before.

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

There was an interesting presentation on fungal growth at the BMS 2 years ago regarding the controls that effect the formation of fungi. this one of yours had accses to air, but not light and so the control forced the longer stem to form, once the growing tip hit light it began to form proper.

[David Humphries]

There was an interesting presentation on fungal growth at the BMS 2 years ago regarding the controls that effect the formation of fungi. this one of yours had accses to air, but not light and so the control forced the longer stem to form, once the growing tip hit light it began to form proper.

 

If I remember correctly (which is increasing difficult for people of a certain age) ) it had emerged out from a deep cavity between two butresses, which would fit what you describe

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

David, i will try to dig out some info, think ive a book somewhere, regarding all the growth stages and influences, like gravity, heat light, moisture. you know mycelium goes hydrophobic when about to form a shroom!

[Fungus]

I think the specimen in that shot was too tall for L. molle from the books i've read from. Here are a couple more from the same area, have put a short (6cm) pencil next to them for scale. I'm of the mind that they are probably L. excipuliforme due to height ...

 

... and to the folds or wrinkles in the zone between the fertile top and the top of the "stipe" and at the base of the "stem". In Dutch it's called Plooivoetstuifzwam (= wrinkled footed puff ball). So very convincing : Calvatia excipuliformis.

[David Humphries]

... and to the folds or wrinkles in the zone between the fertile top and the top of the "stipe" and at the base of the "stem". In Dutch it's called Plooivoetstuifzwam (= wrinkled footed puff ball). So very convincing : Calvatia excipuliformis.

 

 

 

Don't read that description in any of my books, thanks Gerrit

 

 

 

 

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