Matt's fungi finds

[Fungus]

The first one looks like a Common Puffball (common on well kept grass)

 

Matt,

This is not Lycoperdon perlatum, but a Bovista species.

[Matthew Arnold]

Some shots of Oak Bracket (Inonotus dryadeus. The trees are well known carriers and have adapted to it. They are just starting to show signs of the fungi taking hold in the crowns but the current management of the trees is to fracture prune the deadwood out (for bugs and beasties) and reduce the dying back crowns but only to the healthy growth below.

 

Pic 1 - This years growth just showing its face

Pic 2 - Last years monster bracket

Pics 3 + 4 - Buckling on neighbouring roadside Oak.

Pics 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15+16 - All taken on same tree. It has a very thin lateral crack making its way up the trunk.

[Fungus]

Some shots of Oak Bracket (Inonotus dryadeus. The trees are well known carriers and have adapted to it. They are just starting to show signs of the fungi taking hold in the crowns but the current management of the trees is to fracture prune the deadwood out (for bugs and beasties) and reduce the dying back crowns but only to the healthy growth below.

Pic 1 - This years growth just showing its face

Pic 2 - Last years monster bracket

Pics 3 + 4 - Buckling on neighbouring roadside Oak.

Pics 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15+16 - All taken on same tree. It has a very thin lateral crack making its way up the trunk.

 

Matt,

Great documentation .

[Matthew Arnold]

Found some Phallus impudicus with impotence and size issues. Went back 2 days later and more have appeared from their eggs and are proper size.

[RobArb]

stinky!!

[Matthew Arnold]

Went back to Green Lane (site with lots of Oaks with I. dryadeus). The small bracket forming at the base of one of the Oak which i assumed was I. dryadeus due to the old FB above looks like it may be a forming G. resinaceum. I shall be getting more pictures of it as it develops over the coming weeks and months. Also more shots of Phallus impudicus and some Coprinus micaceus.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

going throught the thread i knew that white bulb was a gano, but australe.

 

when dryadeus forms it has the orange hues from the get go.

[Fungus]

that white bulb was a gano, but australe.

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

As the Oak now has both I.dryadeus and G.australe working how long would it be before we need to take serious remdial work?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

As the Oak now has both I.dryadeus and G.australe working how long would it be before we need to take serious remedial work?

 

Would be hard to say without having a thorough look at the tree, but considering the dryadeus will have consumed the older dysfunctional material, those viable columns sustaining the tree will be under threat by the more aggressive gano austral, though this may be G. lipsiense although unlikely as there is little saprobic material for lipsiense=applanatum in this scenario.

 

be carefulll with this one matt:001_huh: