piptoporus quercinas

[sean]

So i was walking along and came across a big old vet oak and i thought to myself 'that hollowed trunk looks a prime site for the elusive oak polypore'. On investigating further, to my astonishment there she lay! (i think)

 

pic 1 is upper surface and 2 and 3 underneath.

[Steve Bullman]

ooh...do we have one of those my humphries?

 

nice find sean

[David Humphries]

Nice one sean, thanks for posting.

 

Do you know how many occurances there's been so far this year at Richmond?

 

 

Very jealous

 

Shame you can't spell it properly. Especially such a rare one n'all.

 

 

 

 

 

Does that answer your Q, Mr B

 

 

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Edited August 24, 2010 by Monkey-D

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

awsome!

 

as for steve, if we havent I wanna know why!

 

spelling is not piptoporus quercinas then? going to have a look myself now!

[David Humphries]

We hadn't collectively got enough images for a gallery.

But that appears to be changing

 

Bio images has it as.........

 

Piptoporus quercinus (Schrad.) P. Karst., 1881 (Oak Polypore)

 

Collins also agrees.

 

As does WAB

 

But you do see it around the web as Piptoporus quercinas

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I never spotted the a in quercinus, even when i repeated it! lmao

 

quercinus is right, lol im slacking. interesting to see this cluster form and partial then aborted.

 

Sean, could you get me a couple of swipes of spore from the body?

[David Humphries]

So...........after a false dawn at the whip, and then sean out funging me, I took to the trail to hone in on the elusive little quercinus.

 

Armed with 18 recorded spots (frdbi 2009) from 4 different sites at Epping, me & the boys then went a hunting.

 

Upshot was, that we were a little late for the show.

 

Found three of the above trees (though some tags not survived) had fruited this year.

 

One in a hollowed out fallen pollard, one (completely desicated) on a standing live pollard & 4 (desicated) on a standing dead pollard.

 

Not particularly aesthetic shots, but interesting to me in terms of context/habitat etc

 

Will get out a bit earlier next year me thinks

 

 

first one.........

 

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[David Humphries]

second, (heavily desicated) opposite the fistulina........

 

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[David Humphries]

third, (definately one of the recorded trees)

But confirmed Id is difficult, especially having been burnt by the Whip

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thats it, i am stepping up the game and going into overdrive on the hericiums!

 

Not having this lot out fungging me!

 

im off to locate some inoculi!