Keizer's Fungi Q & A.

[David Humphries]

David,

Goedemorgen too, although it is 10:33 AM (summertime), i.e. 2 hours later over here.

Without slice difficult to say. A wild guess would be, it is a sterile perennial, poorly developed bracket of Ganoderma lipsiense, of which the mycelium has stopped fruiting after the beech closed it in and shut the mycelium off of its food or energy supply.

 

 

 

Thanks Gerrit, I'll be sure to return and get a slice shot

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Gerrit,

 

can I take it that this is a hyphal mat (onozium)

 

I think I have seen this in association with Coprinus sp in the past.

 

are there other Genus that do this ?

 

 

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[Fungus]

can I take it that this is a hyphal mat (ozonium)

I think I have seen this in association with Coprinus sp in the past.

 

David,

: a "fox tail" coloured ozonium of the type associated with Coprinus domesticus, C. radians and C. xanthothrix.

[David Humphries]

David,

: a "fox tail" coloured ozonium of the type associated with Coprinus domesticus, C. radians and C. xanthothrix.

 

Again, thanks for nod.

 

Can you explain what's going on here?

 

 

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[Fungus]

Can you explain what's going on here?

 

David,

It is assumed to be sterile "air" mycelium growing out to uptake moist from the air, which is delivered to the inside mycelium to help it fruiting under dry circumstances and/or when the decomposed wood contains (too) little water.

[David Humphries]

David,

It is assumed to be sterile "air" mycelium growing out to uptake moist from the air, which is delivered to the inside mycelium to help it fruiting under dry circumstances and/or when the decomposed wood contains (too) little water.

 

Cool

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Without slice difficult to say. A wild guess would be, it is a sterile perennial, poorly developed bracket of Ganoderma lipsiense, of which the mycelium has stopped fruiting after the beech closed it in and shut the mycelium off of its food or energy supply.

 

Thanks Gerrit, I'll be sure to return and get a slice shot .

 

 

Well, went back & got me a slice.

 

I'm of the peruasion that what we have here may be Perenniporia fraxinea.

 

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[Fungus]

Well, went back & got me a slice.

I'm of the peruasion that what we have here may be Perenniporia fraxinea ?

 

And I am of the persuasion, that it could be a degenerated bracket of a lot of other perennial species, which are more often found on beech, so with determination of the spore colour and the size of them (microscope), it is impossible to identify the "rotten" thing .

[David Humphries]

Hence the use of the coverall 'May'

 

 

Further up in this tree there were two small developing brackets on this very dead/dysfunctional branch system.

Popped one off to have a looksee.

 

Ganoderma sp it would seem ?

possibly applanatum/lipsiense.

 

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[David Humphries]

Appologies Forum, but I'm doing exactly what I said to Tony that we shouldn't do, and that is hog this fine thread.

 

But I'm still running at 2 posts behind Tony so I'm about in credit...............just !

 

 

These shots depict what I presume is a delaminated (from the decayed wood within a basal cavity of the Oak in shot 1) Melanine sheet, showing both the outer (black/brown) surface & the inner light/tan coloured surface.

 

Also posted for a pictoral comparison is the white Mycelial sheet that I stripped away from the brown cubical rot of a Laetiporus affected Oak trunk.

 

My question is/are......

 

Why the difference in colour & texture to the Melanine sheet sides ?

Also, is this the same (or not) as a psuedosclaratial plate (like these ones) , often seen defending decay zones across sections of cross cut trunks/branches.

 

Finally, are both the Melanine & Mycelial sheets made up from similar myco building blocks ?

 

My guess is no to the last Q, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.

 

 

Thanks, D

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Edited May 9, 2011 by Monkey-D