The Fung Hunters

[David Humphries]

The circling doesn't sound too good long term.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

The young fung-Jedi and myself hunting out the fung at Bradfield Woods in Suffolk today.....

 

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[David Humphries]

Kveldssanger getting up close and personal with Kretzschmaria deusta, Calvatia excipuliformis and Ganoderma resinaceum

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Thanks for today, David (and the guys). Genuinely a wonderful day, and it was a pleasure to spend it in the company of a knowledgeable and welcoming team.

 

That turkey oak is something else. Gorgeous tree. Really has a lot of character.

[Kveldssanger]

David, the single-leaved ash is Fraxinus anomala.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_anomala

[David Humphries]

Sniffing out Fistulina hepatica (beefsteak) fruiting from underneath a recently fallen oak.

 

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[David Humphries]

A case of sneaky fung playing with this fung hunters head

 

Inonotus hispidus on Malus in a friends orchard, pretending to be 'chicken of the woods'

 

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Edited July 17, 2016 by David Humphries

[David Humphries]

Couple of days after visiting this tall ash monolith with our tame local mycologist on a little study programme around Ganoderma identification, it gave up the ghost.

 

We took out the declining canopy about 10 years ago, so it's had a decent length of time standing providing good habitat.

 

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[silky fox]

"TAME" Mycologist.....(like the Stig) 😀...like it. Great pictures...impressive brackets.like Gardians of the cavity.right upp to the moment that it keeled over..At least you gave it time to be of use as habitat for a while by leaving it standing.Thanks for sharing.

[David Humphries]

Spent the day with Dr Martyn Ainsworth from the mycology department at Kew and Neil Mahler from the Suffolk Fungus Group (aka Forest Imp) surveying the 200 ancient/veteran oak pollards at Aspal Close Nature Reserve in Suffolk for the rare Oak polypore (Buglossoporus pulvinus-formerly Piptoporus quercinus). After spending a few hours fighting our way through thick bramble and dense herbage and only stumbling on Beefsteak, spindle shank and desiccated chicken of the woods, we only had a hand full of the last oaks to check on the outskirts of the reserve on the way back to the car when we eventually found one fruit body (a first record for the site)........worth the effort !

 

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http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-fungi-116.html

 

 

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