Todays fungi are..

[tommer9]

I think the first 3 are g.adspersum, here on hazel (IIRC), plus a little parasol type of affair (dont know what) and some white brackets on a rotten stump, taken very quickly whilst stopped in a lane!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Forest Imp]

The Ganoderma could be G.australe or applanatum (the name 'adspersum' is now australe.) Apart from breaking part of the bracket off, the only other way of telling which from what is by measuring the spore length under a scope with a 100x oil imersion objective.

 

The tiny 'parasol' is a species of Mycena, and the white brackets are Trametes gibbosa.

Later, these white brackets will develop a green algal growth on the upper surface.

[Bundle 2]

"....The Ganoderma could be G.australe or applanatum (the name 'adspersum' is now australe.) Apart from breaking part of the bracket off, the only other way of telling which from what is by measuring the spore length under a scope with a 100x oil imersion objective.....

 

This is done by measuring alot of spores and making an average size assessment of length!

Good luck with that....lol

[tommer9]

Thanks guys.

[David oakman]

Tommer 9 you have got me thinking now i don't think i have seen any fungi on hazel before i will get out now and look around some of my old ones:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tommer 9 you have got me thinking now i don't think i have seen any fungi on hazel before i will get out now and look around some of my old ones:001_smile:

 

David, if you have old hazels, youll get a lot of stereum on them, and also feeding on the stereum will be Tremella foliacea, a beautiful fungi well worth hunting down.

[tommer9]

They were pretty old hazels, that had been coppiced in the past and then left go.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

old coppice let go is a rare habitat, and the prefered habitat of the tremella foliacea, look out for the orange stereum hirsutums and youll find the foliacea on the same twigs, even when the stereums not visible it will be there feeding on the mycelium of S. hirsutum and others (stereums)

[Forest Imp]

old coppice let go is a rare habitat, and the prefered habitat of the tremella foliacea, look out for the orange stereum hirsutums and youll find the foliacea on the same twigs, even when the stereums not visible it will be there feeding on the mycelium of S. hirsutum and others (stereums)

 

I guess T.foliacea on Stereum hirsutum must be quite common where you are Tony, where I live (Suffolk) I count myself lucky to see the more likely Tremella aurantia on S.hirsutum, but the presence of Stereum does not guarantee the presence of Tremella parasitising it.

I think what you were trying to say is to be on the look out for T.foliacea when Stereum hirsutum is seen or is known to be, on old Hazel coppice.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I guess T.foliacea on Stereum hirsutum must be quite common where you are Tony, where I live (Suffolk) I count myself lucky to see the more likely Tremella aurantia on S.hirsutum, but the presence of Stereum does not guarantee the presence of Tremella parasitising it.

I think what you were trying to say is to be on the look out for T.foliacea when Stereum hirsutum is seen or is known to be, on old Hazel coppice.

 

Thats what I said forest, "look out for"

 

Its a beautiful fungus, hence my recomending the tracking down of it:thumbup: It is reletivley common in my favourite wood, WW.