Any ideas what this fungi is?

[Giles Hill]

I've not seen or heard of it before... Just a persistent hunt through the books and found Postia stiptica in Michael Jordan's book, which almost matched Matt's pic, but not quite.

 

How did you find Postia ptychogaster Matt? It looks a good bet based on a quick google search.

[Matthew Arnold]

I've not seen or heard of it before... Just a persistent hunt through the books and found Postia stiptica in Michael Jordan's book, which almost matched Matt's pic, but not quite.

 

How did you find Postia ptychogaster Matt? It looks a good bet based on a quick google search.

 

I just typed in Postia fungi into google search and clicked on images and found it. i looked at my picture and the picture on there and there were a perfect match.

[Tully]

We must not forget that ganoderma pfiefferi also has a resinous coating, and both I believe melt on a flame and re set on cooling so dont think you have it all sorted out yet:001_tt2:

 

You are correct Hama.

 

The one thing that is said to show a difference between G.resinaceum and G.pfeifferi is that the resinous coating on G.resinaceum is supposedly softer. To be honest I have not tested this my self and I imagen it would be hard to always find a difference.

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You are correct Hama.

 

The one thing that is said to show a difference between G.resinaceum and G.pfeifferi is that the resinous coating on G.resinaceum is supposedly softer. To be honest I have not tested this my self and I imagen it would be hard to always find a difference.

 

 

Good to know i remeber some of the stuff :laugh1:i read up on!

 

Also, being that resinaceum is an annual bracket as apposed to the persistant, and perennial G. pfiefferi it should be relativley easy to distinguish the two, as when resinaceum is fresh it is a very obviously identifiable bracket:thumbup1:

[Matthew Arnold]

Good to know i remeber some of the stuff :laugh1:i read up on!

 

Also, being that resinaceum is an annual bracket as apposed to the persistant, and perennial G. pfiefferi it should be relativley easy to distinguish the two, as when resinaceum is fresh it is a very obviously identifiable bracket:thumbup1:

 

I recon it will be resinaceum then as it wasnt there when i last checked them in june. It was there when i came back from holiday in late August. So it has grown a massive amount.

[Giles Hill]

I just typed in Postia fungi into google search and clicked on images and found it. i looked at my picture and the picture on there and there were a perfect match.

 

Good stuff, I don't know how we survived before Google. It can make for frustrating fungi searches though as the quality of sources is so variable.

[Matthew Arnold]

Good stuff, I don't know how we survived before Google. It can make for frustrating fungi searches though as the quality of sources is so variable.

 

Looking through hundred of books looking for one fungi. now just type the name of the fungi and boom everything you want to know about the fungi comes up in meer seconds. the only trouble is you have to sift through the pages and pages of rubbish to get to the good stuff.

[Matthew Arnold]

I just looked through the pictures of ground based fungi and found these little critters. Any ideas what they are? All of the groups were growing from rotten wood. I havent seen them growing there before. We did have a large rotten leaning Ash removed last year as it split along its length base to crown on a calm day.

[RobRainford]

could the first ones, be of the Mycena genus?

 

Edit: the first ones, from what i can find online, could they be Mycena haematopus? the bleeding fairy helmet?

 

i could be way out mind. this is only a suggestion from my limited knowledge!

Edited October 5, 2010 by RobRainford