Desiccated fruitbodies

[Fungus]

I reckon youve got a wierd formation of rigidiporus populinus, not seen it on oak before.

hang on a mo, thats probably its doppelganger, perenniporia fraxinea

 

Tony,

Second time around correct , and not on oak. but on ash (Fraxinia).

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

Second time around correct , and not on oak. but on ash (Fraxinia).

 

yes i should have looked at the tree better! lol

 

think fungi have become a little too much of an obsession! I dont see tree any more, just a substrate for my fungi lust!

[Sal]

That's great thanks. So then, might that bulge be down to a decay cavity?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That's great thanks. So then, might that bulge be down to a decay cavity?

 

Perenniporia is a part of ash tree ecology, but yes there is much decay within, ash trees form very wide flares at the base when colonised by P. fraxinea, thermal imaging or airspade the only real way to get a handle on the decay extent IMO. an increment core could be a last ditch attempt at a cheap method of evaluation but potentialy giving the fungi accses to previously sound woody volumes.

[Xerxses]

Okidoki... whats this then?

 

On birch.

[Fungus]

... whats this then? On birch.

 

Last year's rotting fruitbodies of a fungus with gills, could be anything ranging from Armillaria mellea s.l. (white spores) to Gymnopilus junonius (brown spores).

[David Humphries]

Aborted from their normal morphology

 

Fistulina hepatica

 

Now being desicated by mold.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Here on London Plane, what I would describe as the desicating remains of Phioliota, possibly P. aurivella.

 

 

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[Fungus]

on London Plane Pholiota, possibly P. aurivella.

 

Definitely P. aurivella .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Definitely P. aurivella .

 

absolutely, agreed.