Keizer's Fungi Q & A.

[RobArb]

I think it was a dead cherry stump

 

So what are these polymorphas?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think it was a dead cherry stump

 

So what are these polymorphas?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

 

 

yes:thumbup:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

sent to me by a friend in the U.S.A, any ideas Gerrit?

[Fungus]

sent to me by a friend in the U.S.A

 

Calvatia utriformis or a resembling North American Calvatia species.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thanks, what does utriformis mean? i assumed this was a form of bolete! so surprised its a clavatia! she did nickname it fat albert though so sure your right!

[Fungus]

what does utriformis mean? i assumed this was a form of bolete!

 

Utriformis means with the shape of a womb or bag pipe (without the pipes). And this is a giant puff ball which forms its spores inside its "belly" (Gasteromycete) on top of a sterile "stem".

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think ive got this one, but knowing you, youll pee on my bonfire as always:lol:

 

Geastrum pectinatum:001_rolleyes:

 

 

 

 

[Fungus]

I think ive got this one, but knowing you, youll pee on my bonfire as always ... Geastrum pectinatum

 

Tony,

No reason to, this definitely is G. pectinatum .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

No reason to, this definitely is G. pectinatum .

 

I guess statisticaly speaking i had to get one of my more obscure finds right eventualy!

 

Thanks Gerrit:thumbup1:

[Fungus]

The instable structure of what we Dutch call the "plakoksel" (= badly "glued" or joined together "armpit" or union) did the trick

 

And this is what the surface of the joint inside the acute fork of the remaining half of a bifurcated beech looks like after the "baby" half is gone.

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