Keizer's Fungi Q & A.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Thanks Gerrit

 

What is the process for getting spores from these old fruit bodies?

[Fungus]

What is the process for getting spores from these old fruit bodies?

 

Wash them from the gills with a little bit of water and let the droplets with the spores drip and then dry on a piece of glass, so you can put either a white or a dark gray piece of paper underneath the glass to determine the colour of the spores.

If you want to be sure which species it is, you'll need a microscope to look at and measure the spores.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Thanks again Gerrit

I have a microscope. I have just never tried getting spores from old fungi.

Looking forward to giving it a go.

[Fungus]

I have a microscope. I have just never tried getting spores from old fungi. Looking forward to giving it a go.

 

In that case, you can scrape the spores directly from the surface of the gills, put them on your object glass in a drop of water or a colouring medium and measure them with 1000 x magnification.

[Fungus]

Where the mycelium of K. deusta is stopped by the tree at the edge of sound wood, the black lines are tree based defensive barrier formations (compartmentalisation).

 

Here's a good example of this phenomenon (photo 3, 4 and 6).

Edited May 19, 2012 by Fungus

[sloth]

Here's a good example of this phenomenon (photo 3, 4 and 6).

 

When I click on 'example' through tapatalk, I end up here, http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=

Is that right?

[Fungus]

When I click on 'example' through tapatalk, I end up here, http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=

Is that right?

 

No, when I click on "example", I get to a post by Matthew Arnold on an Ash stump with K. deusta.

[David Humphries]

No, when I click on "example", I get to a post by Matthew Arnold on an Ash stump with K. deusta.

 

Me too.

 

I think there is a link issue with your tapatalk sloth

 

 

 

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[sloth]

Hmm, other links work ok. Strange....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Bit late to contribute: but for what its worth; I come across Antrodia ( usually A. serialis ) in processed structural timber. Your photos look like a dead ringer Tony. One thing I would add is that its associated with warm, very humid environments

 

Thanks Pete, didnt spot this post before:thumbup1:

 

Here's a good example of this phenomenon (photo 3, 4 and 6).

 

 

Thanks Gerrit, Matt has got some cracking shots there, so are we suggesting that trees can compartmentalise K deusta? I was under the impression it was fairly invasive?