Fungi ID

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Due to Phenoms absolute and confidant statement i have just checked my library and my box of dried specimens!

 

I will if needed upload some photos, it would appear that the pore layer of piptoporus betulinus does indeed go brown/cinnamon coloured with age/drying, however the top usualy remains stable as its fruit body contains anti parasitic (deters boring inverts) sometimes they dry and crack revealing a white flesh on drying, other times they are mottled brown/biege. under no circumstances is frass associated with the fruit bodies as is witnessed in the brown powedery deposits on two of the three bodies in tully image.

 

On drying the pore surface also seperates at the cap margin, leaving a distinct viod between cap and flesh, almost gutter like.

 

I am now 100% happy this is not Piptoporus betulinus, and hope in some ways to be proved wrong as this will teach me something i do not as yet know, which is why i posted the comment "unlike any ive witnessed before"

 

Fungi dont follow rules, and learning about the various rules they DO break, makes these posts so interesting.

 

So phenom, what makes you so sure its pip?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tully, where is this tree? is there accses?

[Tully]

Its at a park in Norfolk I used to help maintain. There is access and the Birch in question has more than one type of fungus. Unfortunetly I do not have the best photos to hand but I may go back and have a look.

 

These are all I got.They were taken a few years back now.

 

Tully King's Photos | Facebook

 

thats your Piptoporous.

 

Tully King's Photos | Facebook

 

this I had down as Polyporous (but not clear enough photo or memory)

 

Thats all for now folks.

 

Will try and pop back when i get time to get some more pics and see how my favourate birch is coping. When I look at it im suprised some of those old bows are still up there.

 

Bundle 2...Do you fancy coming with me to have a wonder?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Well now, thats pipto, and if your ident is o.k on them and your asking for an ident on the other brackets origionaly posted its safe to assume they aint piptos!

 

 

the gilled ones are Pleurotus ostreatus

[Will Hinchliffe]

The shape, colouring and host made me choose my guess, there is not a lot else you can go on from the photos.

 

Is the stem dead or alive ?

 

Were the brackets soft or hard ?

 

What colour is the flesh and what colour is the pore layer ?

 

Can you describe the pores ?

 

Brackets age very differently depending on environmental conditions making them difficult to Id.