Keizer's Fungi Q & A.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Without the following information and from a picture alone, there's no identification possible, so :

1/2. Saprotrophic on the wood chips or ectomycorrhizal symbiont of (what) tree species ? Spore colour ?

3. Saprotrophic in grass or symbiotic with (what) trees ? Spore colour ?

4. Russula species, associated with what tree species ? Birch ?

5. Associated with beech (or oak) and with white spores ? If so, possibly Tricholoma ustale or T. ustaloides.

 

1/2 was a mix of chip so hard to say, was a robust rubbery fungi spore print unkown, white mycelium VERY well established and thick through mulch.

 

Birch yes!

 

Beech and birch possibly oak within the group (illustrated) and where the majority came from

 

[David Humphries]

Gerrit,

 

have been noting the drooping of Laccaria (particularly amethystina) more often than of other Genus.

 

Is there something specific about this, or is it just a case of coming toward the end of it's fruiting and the caps being less desicated & too heavy for a fragile desicating stem?

 

 

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[Fungus]

have been noting the drooping of Laccaria (particularly amethystina) more often than of other Genus. Is there something specific about this, or is it just a case of coming toward the end of it's fruiting and the caps being less desicated & too heavy for a fragile desicating stem?

 

This phenomenon is caused by the shrinking and thus locally shortening of the long fiberous cells in/of the stipe and is not just confined to Laccaria species. Besides, it might be functional changing the position of the gills so the wind can do a better job dispersing the last formed ripe spores.

And one will never find this curving and drooping of stems in Russula or Lactarius species, because their FB's completely exist of round cells and that's why they are so brittle and unsuited for making fungal paper of them.

[David Humphries]

This phenomenon is caused by the shrinking and thus locally shortening of the long fiberous cells in/of the stipe and is not just confined to Laccaria species. Besides, it might be functional changing the position of the gills so the wind can do a better job dispersing the last formed ripe spores.

And one will never find this curving and drooping of stems in Russula or Lactarius species, because their FB's completely exist of round cells and that's why they are so brittle and unsuited for making fungal paper of them.

 

 

Knew you'd have the answer.

 

Thanking you kindly Sir

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

... the answer.

 

David,

Did you read my answer to your before question on ectendomycorrhizal fungi ?

[David Humphries]

David,

Did you read my answer to your before question on ectendomycorrhizal fungi ?

 

I probably did (don't mean that disrespectfully) got a million things on at the mo. I ask a lot of questions both here and elsewhere and remembering all the info is not that easy. Chemical/Electrical imbalances in the old grey stuf don't you know.

 

If I don't answer back straight away (or at all ) please don't take it as ignorance

 

I often, (nearly all the time) talk over your replies at length, with colleagues, here at work & elsewhere

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

imbalances in the old grey stuf ...

 

David,

 

... or the white matter, the mycelium of the brain .

[Fungus]

shiny new toy! I forsee some very interesting posts in the future; hopefully

 

Sloth,

How about these photo's of a mite or tick speed walking on the pores and a larva coming out of a tube of Coriolopsis trogii then ?

[sloth]

Sloth,

How about these photo's of a mite or tick speed walking on the pores and a larva coming out of a tube of Coriolopsis trogii then ?

 

what magnification is it?

[Fungus]

what magnification is it?

 

Magnification : 20 x