Desiccated fruitbodies

[Gary Prentice]

:Thank you, woo hoo I got the family right. Looking at Wikipedia I think it might be E. nigricans.

 

I'm really starting to understand everyone's interest in fungi. I actually turned the car round last weekend to go back to a bracket I'd spotted.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Can't really tell from that image.

 

Now that the second image is up, I would think Exidia glandulosa - witches butter

 

 

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would think being solitary and thin probably more likely E. truncorum wot wot:biggrin:

[treeseer]

The way I have always thought of it (and please please if anyone knows different let me know) is that when a tree gets to the age when it can produce heartwood, every year thereafter when it puts on a new ring it consigns an old ring to heartwood. So if that is so evey year a ring of wood is converted from sapwood to heartwood.

 

Not always1:1 but yes.

 

"I have another unproven assumption that heartwood is produced from sapwood by the importation of substances from vigorous new wood along medullary rays and more generally by patrenchymal cells towards the older heart of the tree.

 

Yes those substances would be largely waste products discharged to be shed.

 

"Adding assumptions to guresses to hypotheses that would mean that fungi absorbing compounds from relatively old wood would have access to current contamination in the soil.

 

Yes very often connected through pith into earth.

 

'Please feel free to strafe my speculation as ruthlessly as its unscientific origin deserves.

 

Sounds like several textbooks; you are joshing re origin methinks.

[Treemoose]

found this on a very old ash pollard it was very corky/rubbery

not sure what it is

[David Humphries]

I would imagine that is the desicated remains of the shaggy bracket - Inonotus hispidus

 

 

 

good set of shots btw

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[Treemoose]

I would imagine that is the desicated remains of the shaggy bracket - Inonotus hispidus

 

 

 

good set of shots btw

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Thanks David much appreciated

[David Humphries]

Laetiporus sulphureus here on Robinia after having desicated nearly 10 months ago

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Inonotus dryadeus in the car parking field at Capel manor.

 

 

 

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[Matthew Corran]

Picture is not very good but any ideas what this might be? Found it at the base of an Oak that failed at the roots.

[Matthew Corran]

Another pic of the underside of the fungi