Spotted Fomes fomentarius in Norfolk?

[Amelanchier]

Well, if you have then the Norfolk Biodiversity Information Service would like to know please

 

Also Fly Agaric sightings and some antipodean interloper know as Red-lead Roundhead.

 

BBC News - 'Comeback' of rare ancient fungus in Norfolk

[David Humphries]

Interesting.....

 

 

the shot by Tony Leech in the link shows the Fomes on Birch.

 

Wonder if this was taken in Norfolk ?

 

That association is relatively rare in it's self for the lower parts of the Uk, normally found on Beech & Oak down South & Birch in the North.

 

Saying that, we've found Fomes on Birch both at Hampstead & Wimbledon.

 

So perhaps there is a shift in it's range on species that are area specific.

 

 

Don't recall any Fomes on my jaunts around the Felbrigg area (specially in relation to all the Beech) , but will go have a looksee in the files.

 

Plenty of Amanitas in the files from the area, but no muscaria

 

 

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  Monkey-D said:

Interesting.....

 

 

the shot by Tony Leech in the link shows the Fomes on Birch.

 

Wonder if this was taken in Norfolk ?

 

 

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Ha ha...I was taught by Tony Leech...many years ago!

[David Humphries]

Spotted Fomes fomentarius in Norfolk?

 

 

 

just found one in the dusty depths of me files.

 

Maybe this is the one they're on about, must be a sub species

 

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[Amelanchier]

Boom boom.

 

I've never seen any in Norfolk at all.

[David Humphries]

  Tony Sorensen said:

I've never seen any in Norfolk at all.

 

 

apparantly just the one record in either west or east Norfolk at Emilies wood at Thetford Forest toward Brandon.

 

A rarity for the county indeed.

 

British Fungi - record details

 

Streetmap.co.uk- search results for 579700,289500

 

 

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[Amelanchier]

Just clocked these in Horsford while trying to walk off my homebrew hangover - only cam phone pictures but that shape is pretty characteristic. Will email some better ones and the grid ref off to NBIS later.

[David Humphries]

  Tony Sorensen said:

Just clocked these in Horsford while trying to walk off my homebrew hangover - only cam phone pictures but that shape is pretty characteristic. Will email some better ones and the grid ref off to NBIS later.

 

Struggling to make out from your fine shots, old boy. Do they happen to reside on Beech or Birch ?

Leaning toward Birch.................which is interesting !

 

 

Now I'm often to be found in the Eastern Angles, one will have to keep one's eyes peeled for said missing fung

 

 

 

 

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[Amelanchier]

Tis a poorly B. pubescens sir. Having just filled in some eforms on the NBIS website it appears to be the easternmost sighting. Game on?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I do love a fommes, so absent my way