Decay images

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

tis a thing of beauty, Gerrit to the scarlet elf cups open so much in maturity?

[Fungus]

do the scarlet elf cups open so much in maturity?

 

Tony,

To my knowledge, and I have seen a lot of both species in The Netherlands over the last 30 years, Sarcoscypha austriaca, the more general species over here, sometimes does and S. coccinea (photo) does not.

It must be a coincidence you asking me this, because I - that is to say, my then four years old daughter - found "my" first Scarlet Elf Cup (photo) ever from hidden alder branches fruiting between mosses at the side of a pond in Broadmayne in the southern UK.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Funny, I found my first when I met Alan Rayner for the first time properly, at his first nature scope meeting.

 

it is like a jewel on the forest floor, wouldnt swap it for a ruby either.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

To my knowledge, and I have seen a lot of both species in The Netherlands over the last 30 years, Sarcoscypha austriaca, the more general species over here, sometimes does and S. coccinea (photo) does not.

It must be a coincidence you asking me this, because I - that is to say, my then four years old daughter - found "my" first Scarlet Elf Cup (photo) ever from hidden alder branches fruiting between mosses at the side of a pond in Broadmayne in the southern UK.

 

so do we think davids may be austriaca then?

[Fungus]

so do we think davids may be austriaca then?

 

Tony,

The only definitive answer to that question can be given by the microscope .

[Fungus]

Excuse me a moment while I go and gently bang my head against something very hard...

 

Janey,

Better to bang your head against something very hard, then to bang it to a horse chestnut, of which the trunk severely has been decayed by Ganoderma australe : Anne Frank tree video and photo's (2).

[RobArb]

You could use my old avatar:lol:

[Fungus]

You could use my old avatar:lol:

 

Rob,

I hope you were not motivated by my remarks on your old avatar to replace it ?

[Fungus]

More shots of Laetiporus decay from one of the Oak vets

 

To all,

A remark on the fruiting of Laetiporus sulphureus. Don't overlook the "clouds" of cinnamon coloured chlamydospores producing anamorph Ceriomyces aurantiacus (photo), which is mostly found present in hollows of veteran oaks in spring and/or summer.

[RobArb]

Rob,

I hope you were not motivated by my remarks on your old avatar to replace it ?

 

No Gerrit, twas time for a change, but don't worry, next time i feel like a headbanging.... it'll be back:lol: