calling captain Hama, there's fungi on the starboard bow........

[sean freeman]

I/we must study these ganos/phelini and for the sake of arbs everywhere find a field identifying feature, iether chemicly or structuraly.

 

differentiation of each species is needed for the strategies are too different, simply isnt sufficient in reports to say "its a gano" anymore, we need this complex sorted

 

Great thread guys...am enjoying it muchly:thumbup1:...even though we have our own ID issues this side of the dividing water...just wondering if in relation to your thoughts (quoted above) do Ganoderma spores stain reddish in iodine solution??...since Phellinus do...that might be one way of quickly checking in the field:confused1:

[Xerxses]

I know we know that, but there's been 78 views on this non thread,

so it's maybe worth giving a visual reference to the weirdy non posters

So they can get the gist of the complexity

 

 

 

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I´m pretty sure you two know for sure that i´m one of the lurchers...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I´m pretty sure you two know for sure that i´m one of the lurchers...

 

 

lost in translation, think he meant lurker!

 

yes we know all about you, shy creature:laugh1:

[Xerxses]

 

lost in translation, think he meant lurker!

 

yes we know all about you, shy creature

 

:lol:

Think thats the funniest spellingmistake I ever done:laugh1:

I´ll show you a nice lurcher though!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

:lol:

Think thats the funniest spellingmistake I ever done

I´ll show you a nice lurcher though!

 

mmmm they say dogs look like thier owners and that wirey looking thing suits you down to the ground!

 

bet it catches more rabbits than you though lanky!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Im starting to think a study into the different rot characters of these gano/phelini might be worth doing. G pfiefferi is im sure a latent saprobe, igniarius appears to result in very pronounced buckling indicating a more invasive and more modifying nature to the residual walls of "healthy" living tissues, even Oaks showing very pronounced symptoms, unlike when colonised by Ganos.

 

those cinnamon brown pore layers in a previous post of mine here are in fact igniarius!

 

darn fungi, I want a decent scope so bad it hurts!

[Giles Hill]

Have either of you tried taking spore prints - does it work with brackets? I read somewhere that the Phellinus has white or yellow spores.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

the trouble with these spore prints as i found out a while back the fungi needs to be active at the harvest time, or you'll get virtually no print off them.

[Giles Hill]

Thanks Tony, I'm sure you've tried the burning test - Is that not a reliable, or does it only work when the resin is fresh?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

tried it a couple of times, waste of time if you ask me, theres much better indicators trouble with fungi is the biodegradability of them, other fungi/bugs/damp can all wreak havoc with structures.

 

I try to establish concrete ways that are purely visual with no more than a pocket knife as a tool, this is after all what most of us have most of the time.