Roadside Decay

[tommer9]

Thank you Fungus.

[David Humphries]

What would appear to be young forming Meripilus on a roadside Birch.

 

Not an association I've noted much before

 

 

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[Fungus]

What would appear to be young forming Meripilus on a roadside Birch. Not an association I've noted much before

 

David,

In The Netherlands not unusual, as you can see in my photo of rather dark FB's of M. giganteus, because they had passed their freshness date.

[David Humphries]

David,

In The Netherlands not unusual, as you can see in my photo of rather dark FB's of M. giganteus, because they had passed their freshness date.

 

Can't really make out from the shot but is that bleeding running down the middle of the trunk to the left hand side of the open wound.

If so, Armillaria also ?

 

(or just a contrast anomaly on the shot?)

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

Can't really make out from the shot but is that bleeding running down the middle of the trunk to the left hand side of the open wound. If so, Armillaria also ? (or just a contrast anomaly on the shot?)

 

There's no bleeding, because the photo is a digital copy of a slide, the quality is not that good.

[David Humphries]

There's no bleeding, because the photo is a digital copy of a slide, the quality is not that good.

 

Ok

 

what would you suggest has caused the bark wound.

 

biotic/abiotic, mechanical damage ?

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

what would you suggest has caused the bark wound. mechanical damage ?

 

Mechanical damage, because the birch was standing close to one of the corners of three pathways in an often visited and intensively "managed" park in Amsterdam.

[Gollum]

Hope you don't mind me putting these on hear Dave as I found them to day next to the A227.

 

First two pics the same fruiting body.

30cm across and wobbled like a jelly

on oak

Lets see what the gurus say.

 

 

 

Second two also on oak.

saw these about a month ago they were bright red then only got chance to photograph them to day

 

 

[David Humphries]

First two probably aborted Fistulina hepatica

 

Second two (though can't see the first one of these) look to be Ganoderma resinaceum.

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I gree on the second, but on the first not convinced but the description and red guttation would lead one down the path to Fistulina for sure. If it is fistulina then it was the teleomorph.