Australian Fungi

[sean freeman]

I'm still thinking Phellinus badius the darker colouration is not what I expected though this F/B had been on the ground for quite some time and its tissues have become home for a range of insects as you point out...Phellinus sp should be more cinnamon coloured though there certainly is variation in that general of most general descriptors!

 

To be honest if its not Phellinus sp I have no idea what it might be, pretty confident it is P. badius.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

darkening of the fruit body would be expected on dessication, the tube layer is VERY long indeed, this must be continuos layers without trama, which im sure is a feature of Phelini, will check it out some more later but cant find much on the WWW. not that that is a suprise.

[Fungus]

Daldinia concentrica looking quite purple in these shots not the typical black outer layer commonly seen in the photographs in many ID books.

 

Sean,

Nice pictures , well documented. By the way, Daldinia concentrica always "kicks off" in this purplish colour.

[Fungus]

That last one looks similar to pycnoporus cinnabarinus, one ive always wanted to find ...

 

Tony,

Come to The Netherlands then, where Pycnoporus cinnabarinus over the last 10 years has become quite common on thick branches and trunks with soil contact of Sorbus aucuparia, birches and beech.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

Come to The Netherlands then, where Pycnoporus cinnabarinus over the last 10 years has become quite common on thick branches and trunks with soil contact of Sorbus aucuparia, birches and beech.

 

I will, when does the season start in earnest gerrit? here it is always around mid september

 

thats a thought globe trotting to follow the season and have a 12 month foray to die for!

[Fungus]

... when does the season start ? here it is always around mid september

 

Depending on either dry or wet summers and the rain and/or wind conditions in August, September and October, the season starts end of August until the beginning of December - if not stopped by early night frost - with its peak in the second half of September and the entire month of October.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Depending on either dry or wet summers and the rain and/or wind conditions in August, September and October, the season starts end of August until the beginning of December - if not stopped by early night frost - with its peak in the second half of September and the whole of October.

 

cool, its definitely a trip that sounds worthwhile, where would you suggest?

[Fungus]

... where would you suggest?

 

Tony,

If you come to the eastern parts of The Netherlands (provinces Gelderland & Overijssel), I'll show you around on both sides of the Dutch-German border.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

If you come to the eastern parts of The Netherlands (provinces Gelderland & Overijssel), I'll show you around on both sides of the Dutch-German border.

 

Oh WOW! count me in! I would jump at the chance!

[sean freeman]

Well its been almost a week since I attended a worshop in teh subtropical rainforests just north of Brisbane [edge of the Glasshouse mountains] and I am still struggling to process all the thoughts which were stimulated by the talks and the walks.

 

The reason for posting is really to fess up to being informed that a group of fungi that I have been very comfortable in identifying can no longer be called what they were being called.

 

Now I know Gerrit has touched on this in another thread re Ganoderma applanatum, and I am happy to recognise where my level of understanding ends...BUT it now appears to be the case that not only do we not have any G. applanatum in Oz [something I have nown for a while since I.Hood states it clearly in his text] but DNA analysis has noe shown that we have no G. lucidum here either....

 

I have no clue what these shiny lacquered f/b's are going to be called but at this stage it seems G. lucidum ain't one of the options....as Hama wrote in an earlier thread I am going back to the drawing board, and confirming my reluctance to be more specific than identifying fungi to genus.

 

I guess I'll go through and edit some posts in this thread to at least avoid making blatant errors