Fungi photo competition- win hamas camera!

[czhey]

I wont get to them till sat and they will be gone, and ive only the sat off so HAVE to go to cutter1s place to do my final shots of the hericium erinaceus and try to get a spore sample for the future research.

 

ok might be passing during the week if you want more pics?

 

forgot the pics

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

oh yes! thats an even better photo!

 

thats awsome, thanks for sharing, to me that is the hardest hardcore fungi porn!

[czhey]

and once again the tripe turns up fruiting on a failed stem only to find a new host! another one ive got to suss out for strategy, this ones an interesting fruit, i think its a bigger issue than we currently realise.

 

The only 'tripe' i can find is this :

Tripe Fungus | Wild About Britain

but your not talking about that?

 

 

oh yes! thats an even better photo!

 

thats awsome, thanks for sharing, to me that is the hardest hardcore fungi porn!

 

 

Lol, thats fine. Thought it was a weird one when i saw it.

Edited October 24, 2010 by czhey

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The only 'tripe' i can find is this :

Tripe Fungus | Wild About Britain

but your not talking about that?QUOTE]

 

Yes i am, in your image next to the orange leathery polypore is the tripe fungus Auricularia messenterica, i think this one is more of a parasite than has been observed to date. When I have the facilities i will look into the role this fungi plays particulary in the vetranisation and retrenchment of Fagus sylvatica, for which i have observed many times now, from cornwall to Ashridge, the same fungi, doing the same thing, though often present also is P.aurivella, iether way, one of these two is the key agent in a particular fracture of fagus, and it results often in a very unusual pattern of decay and oddly very prominent reiterative growth.

[melvyn]

[armchairarborist]

sparassis crispa? maybe/maybe not, found on oak dead peg.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

AHA! you have tremmela foliacea feeding on mycelium of the stereum!

[armchairarborist]

AHA! you have tremmela foliacea feeding on mycelium of the stereum!

 

had to google half of your sentence to work out what it meant.. the trouble i find with fung identifiers is i visually see the fung but am unable to tell the computer what i am seeing in order to find what it is,

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

had to google half of your sentence to work out what it meant.. the trouble i find with fung identifiers is i visually see the fung but am unable to tell the computer what i am seeing in order to find what it is,

 

All the tremellas are parasites on other fungi

 

tremella foliacea and aurantia on stereums

 

and tremella messenterica on the crust fungi peniophoras

[John Barleycorn]

Yellow Brain Fungus (with strands of sheep wool)

Growing on Gorse, Dartmoor