Roadside Decay

[David Humphries]

Yes, in Holland and in The Netherlands too. With lots of poplars present, they're quite common.

 

 

 

Thanks G

 

 

 

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[RobArb]

woot woot got the genus correct:dancing2:

[David Humphries]

Poplar, with what looks to be Perenniporia fruiting at the base & aborting/panick fruiting up the trunk.

 

This tree has obviously been reduced in the past (I would guess partly due to the historic presence of the Perenniporia). Possibly even having been left with the knowledge of it being in attendance, perhaps due to the lean away from the main target (the lean side being scrub land) But that's just conjecture on my part.

 

Will stop by on the way to work in the morning to take a flesh/pore layer slice & then be calling the LA to see if they're aware.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Laetiporus sulphureus on Oak along a residential road with a fine line of Veteran Oaks in Southgate, North London

 

 

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[David Humphries]

An interesting one from a drive by this morning.

 

Fruiting of Meripilus seemingly from a long gone tree.

No stump in evidence on the pavement or in the raised part of the garden above.

 

 

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[Fungus]

Fruiting of Meripilus seemingly from a long gone tree. No stump in evidence on the pavement or in the raised part of the garden above.

 

Nice . Must be a (last) effort of panic fruiting from remaining roots with living tissue deep in the soil behind the wall, because FB's of annual fruiting bracket fungi always "look for" the easiest way out to open space to loose as little energy possible in producing FB's and spreading their spores.

I once saw Merulius FB's breaking through a pathway with two heavy concrete tiles on their "heads", just as Agaricus bitorquis can be seen surfacing through pavement with a lump of tarmac on top.

[David Humphries]

Nice . Must be a (last) effort of panic fruiting from remaining roots with living tissue deep in the soil behind the wall, because FB's of annual fruiting bracket fungi always "look for" the easiest way out to open space to loose as little energy possible in producing FB's and spreading their spores.

I once saw Merulius FB's breaking through a pathway with two heavy concrete tiles on their "heads", just as Agaricus bitorquis can be seen surfacing through pavement with a lump of tarmac on top.

 

 

Gerrit,

 

Is it not possible for Meripilus to carry on acting saprophytically on the underground remains of a previous host for a number of annual cycles ?

 

This one here in one of our Parks, has been fruiting for at least three/four years (my observation) on the same depressed old tree pit from what I had presumed was a removed tree. (species unknown)

 

Would you say that this is acting on the roots of one of the trees (Plantanus) some meters away then ?

 

 

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[tommer9]

Heres a couple from the last year or so.....

Agarics in the shade of Betulae in the cornish countryside.....

 

Meripilus on an old stump (beech or chestnut:blushing:(the latter i think)) in Penryn.

 

Not so much roadside, as above road.......unsure of species.

[Fungus]

Is it not possible for Meripilus to carry on acting saprophytically on the underground remains of a previous host for a number of annual cycles ?

This one here in one of our Parks, has been fruiting for at least three/four years (my observation) on the same depressed old tree pit from what I had presumed was a removed tree. (species unknown) Would you say that this is acting on the roots of one of the trees (Plantanus) some meters away then ?

 

David,

No, it is not possible (nor probable), because M. giganteus IME is a biotrophic parasitic annual bracket fungus (see : the fairy tale of Meripilus).

And no, not from roots from other non-infected trees, but from underground remains of the felled tree/roots, which still have living tissue in the main roots and/or in to the main roots connected secondary roots, the mycelium can make contact with in order to be capable of further degrading the buried dead wood, which is, just as in your pictures, the case in my :

Photo 1 : FB's following the remaining partially living main (and secondary) roots after a beech is felled and the stump is totally removed above and underground.

Photo 2 : FB's fruiting from main roots with living tissue of attached secondary roots with the dead stump of a felled beech in the background.

Nota bene. I've in both (and other) cases checked whether there still was living tissue in the main roots and/or whether they were connected to living secondary roots.

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[Fungus]

1. Agarics in the shade of Betulae in the cornish countryside.....

2. Meripilus on an old stump (beech or chestnut:blushing:(the latter i think)) in Penryn.

3. Not so much roadside, as above road.......unsure of species.

 

Hunter,

1. The Holy Mushroom or Fly Agaric .

2. No Meripilus, looks more like mushrooms with cap and stipe, such as Honey Fungus (Armillaria species) or Collybia fusipes.

3. Myxarium nucleatum or an Exidia species, such as E. thuretiana.