Was ist das??

[Andy Collins]

found this on lucidium: http://www.naturalypure.com/GanodermaLucidum.htm and this: http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P1/P1733.php

[Bundle 2]

Lets get the spelling right already... Ganoderma lucidum.

Certainly looks like a mushroom, not a perennial bracket...wonder wtf with the generalisation made by Schwarze, Engels & Mattheck .

I agree the bracket of pfeifferi is unlike that Tony presents but this is not enough to rule it out IMO.

Cheers for the post Andy.

[Andy Collins]

ooops my bad, must learn to read and write proper, should have listened at school instead of throwing paper darts, and messing about with girls. Couldnt find the reasoning behind the term Beeswax fungus, although it is called so.

[Bundle 2]

About that Beeswax bracket....I hasten to add i am guessing here entirely and I can see that the problem is that I refer to the wood not the bracket which will make this suggestion a bit spurious ( without foundation )bare with me.

The name may be derived from the preferential decay of the fungus. Apparently preferring horizontal parenchyma and longditudinal medullary cells ( I think I got that right.)This gives rise to an honeycomb appearance. Mind you, I think you probably have to view the damn thing under uv conditions.....If anybody really knows....

[Amelanchier]

Trouble with fungi is that they never read the books...

[A_N_Other]

G. pfeferi has an unusal cloudy lacquered appearance that when scartched gives that sort of beeswax look. Rarer than the other Ganodermas - saw a nice example with Ted Green in Widsow Great Park. Like the honeycomb decay idea - full marks for effort...