Any ideas what this is?

[Matthew Arnold]

I found this fungi whilst out on one of my site visits. It was growing next to a small group of Hawthorns. The hawthorns are in generally poor shape but no sign of any fungi until this one. Any ideas if its parasitic?

[Forest Imp]

Hello Everyone,

 

This seem most likely to be old fruitbodies of Clouded Agaric - Clitocybe nebularis.

 

I believe these are mycorrhizal, rather than parasitic.

Edited October 12, 2010 by Forest Imp

[David Humphries]

Hello Everyone,

 

This seem most likely to be old fruitbodies of Clouded Agaric - Clitocybe nebularis.

 

I believe these are mycorrhizal, rather than parasitic.

 

 

 

 

Hello Forest Imp.

Welcome to the site.

 

 

I'd agree with you on that Id.

 

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Ok cheers guys. Glad to hear its not parasitic. From the access road it looks very much like Meripilus but on closer inspection its seperate bodies rather that one.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

If you keep your eye on these fruit bodies, you may see a fungi fruiting on them, known as Volvariella surecta! the piggy back rosegill, get that, and enter it into my competition!

[Matthew Arnold]

If you keep your eye on these fruit bodies, you may see a fungi fruiting on them, known as Volvariella surecta! the piggy back rosegill, get that, and enter it into my competition!

 

Sadly some of the local oiks from the nearby (other side of the road) school have trashed them which is a pain. Got lots more fruiting bodies though. Should Inonotus hispidus grow on Limes? And how big would the bracket be, before we need to worry about it? It wasn' t there last year but it may have been in there for a little while.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Sadly some of the local oiks from the nearby (other side of the road) school have trashed them which is a pain. Got lots more fruiting bodies though. Should Inonotus hispidus grow on Limes? And how big would the bracket be, before we need to worry about it? It wasn' t there last year but it may have been in there for a little while.

 

You have Hispidus on lime?

 

I want to see and confirm this face to face, any chance?

 

im deadly serious, thats fascinating:001_cool:

[Matthew Arnold]

I shall need to get my SLR out and get a pic ASAP. Before it falls off. It way way up in the crown. I beilve it is hispidus. Hispidus does go black after the fruiting body has finished sporing?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I shall need to get my SLR out and get a pic ASAP. Before it falls off. It way way up in the crown. I beilve it is hispidus. Hispidus does go black after the fruiting body has finished sporing?

 

just wait till it hits the deck, i will know even from the black remains of it:thumbup1:

 

never seen it on lime, would be an interesting one if confirmed.

 

Seen it on sorbus, ash, plane, apple.

[Forest Imp]

Sadly some of the local oiks from the nearby (other side of the road) school have trashed them which is a pain. Got lots more fruiting bodies though. Should Inonotus hispidus grow on Limes? And how big would the bracket be, before we need to worry about it? It wasn' t there last year but it may have been in there for a little while.

 

I.hispidus on Tilia would be very rare as there is only one record on the Fungal Records Database of Britain & Ireland - 'On fallen, dead Tilia trunk, 26/10/2002, Shropshire'.

I am currently observing I.hispidus growing on a dead Ulmus stump, and on another Ulmus stump next to it, is Meripilus giganteus - both new hosts for me.