Keizer's Fungi Q & A.

[Fungus]

1. First up a Postia type bracket on Pinus i believe, or maybe larix, smells a bit like apple slices when broken and very very juicy too, definatley of the postia type/family?

2. then an odd little crust also on pinus sylvestris, more pale blue tones in the flesh than in the image.

 

1. Did you taste it ? Very bitter, smelling like Heterobasidion annosum and without blue tones : P. stiptica, not bitter and with blue tones : P. caesia, or maybe both ?

2. Hard to say, could be Physisporinus vitreus or an annual resupinate poroid FB of another species.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thanks

[Tom Joye]

Tom,

1. In the this far documented cases of beeches, but also of oaks, limes and ashes, I don't think it is a random or trial and error process, because :

- there's no evidence, i.e. are no remains, of other dormant buds in the direct vicinity of the bridges, which had been activated and "send out" (in vain) to meet others too, and

- the phenomenon of complete merging at the tip of the branches and full closure of the bark only takes place among trunks and branches of genetically identical trees coming from the same "mother" (first photo).

....

 

Thanks Gerrit,

 

I'll keep my eyes wide open to spot 2 young branches growing in each others direction

 

And then another question. What fungus could this be? It's on a stem/branch of an Aesculus that was recently cut of a tree in bad condition and now lying on the ground. I don't have any more detailed pics or info, just came across this FB when walking in a park. I'm especially puzzled by the droplets, immediately made me think of I. dryadeus (but impossible, because not on oak). Could that be guttation or just rain drops that got stuck (it was a bit of a rainy day)?

 

Regards,

Tom

[Fungus]

What fungus could this be? It's on a stem/branch of an Aesculus that was recently cut of a tree in bad condition and now lying on the ground. I don't have any more detailed pics or info, just came across this FB when walking in a park. I'm especially puzzled by the droplets, immediately made me think of I. dryadeus (but impossible, because not on oak). Could that be guttation or just rain drops that got stuck (it was a bit of a rainy day)?

 

Tom,

Ganoderma australe with guttation droplets.

[Tom Joye]

And while we're at it, two more pics and questions...

1. on birch: is this a form of Phlebia merismoides?

2. in a young beech wood: could this be Ramaria? Sorry, don't have any detailed pics

[Tom Joye]

Tom,

Ganoderma australe with guttation droplets.

 

Thanks a lot Gerrit ,

didn't know G. australe also could have guttation droplets

[Fungus]

1. on birch: is this a form of Phlebia merismoides?

2. in a young beech wood: could this be Ramaria?

 

Tom,

1. Phlebia radiata (= P. merismoides).

2. Probably Ramaria stricta.

[Fungus]

didn't know G. australe also could have guttation droplets

 

Tom,

Depending on the tree species (f.i. Aesculus, Prunus), it sometimes does.

Guttation is part of the strategy of mycelia of some species of bracket fungi (f.i. Inonotus species, Laetiporus sulphureus, Fomitopsis pinicola) to withdraw fluids from the tree, which are then secreted via the brackets, thus locally hightening the concentration of enzymes with which the wood is decomposed, which makes the process more efficient for the mycelia.

[Tom Joye]

Tom,

Depending on the tree species (f.i. Aesculus, Prunus), it sometimes does.

Guttation is part of the strategy of mycelia of some species of bracket fungi (f.i. Inonotus species, Laetiporus sulphureus, Fomitopsis pinicola) to withdraw fluids from the tree, which are then secreted via the brackets, thus locally hightening the concentration of enzymes with which the wood is decomposed, which makes the process more efficient for the mycelia.

 

This is a good day, I learned something new ... again

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Gerrit see this a lot in Ww, here on spruce i think, maybe pine, already recorded P. flammans on this last year, and struggling with this one, ruled out P. clavicola for that would be on deciduous