Keizer's Fungi Q & A.

[Fungus]

Not sure if this is the right thread so apologies if it isn't. Can you guys ID these for a colleague of mine? We're having difficulty navigating around some of the fung ID sites so it's often easier to ask on here. They're growing out of some mulch apllied to the gardens.

 

Hard to say without knowing the colour of the spores. Because they seem to be rusty brown on the yellow gills and the closed caps have a yellowish cortina like annulus connecting the rim to the stem, I think it could be an (indigenous) Gymnopilus species or an Agrocybe species if the spores are more tobacco to dark brown.

[sloth]

Some comments on another thread regarding L. sulphureus on yew got me wondering about other toxic trees. For example I once found a bumper crop of P. ostreatus on laburnum, but didn't dare eat them in case they took on the trees toxins. Are there any other examples of edible fungi becoming indelible as a result of their host species? Thank you....

[Taupotreeman]

Found at the base of a lombardy pop (notable tree). Is this Honey fungus or nothing to worry about?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Found at the base of a lombardy pop (notable tree). Is this Honey fungus or nothing to worry about?

 

They look like Pholiota aurivella to me, and Ive not seen Gerrit post for a while, I hope he is O.k are you with us Gerrit?

[sloth]

I don't know where you've been Gerrit, but I hope life is treating you well

When you are back with us I wonder if you know whether any 'brainwashing fungi' like Cordyceps infect and alter the behaviour of anything other than insects?

Thanks in advance...

[David Humphries]

I wonder if you know whether any 'brainwashing fungi' like Cordyceps infect and alter the behaviour of anything other than insects? ...

 

 

 

You only have to meet the Hama once to get your answer to that one sloth

 

 

 

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[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Here is a crusty old fossil found on a flowering cherry.

[sloth]

You only have to meet the Hama once to get your answer to that one sloth

 

 

 

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Very good point!

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a crusty old fossil found on a flowering cherry.

has a look of old chicken to it, we shall see....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You only have to meet the Hama once to get your answer to that one sloth

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Suppose I would be daft to argue on that point!

 

Here is a crusty old fossil found on a flowering cherry.

 

L. sulphureus.