Keizer's Fungus guide

[Fungus]

1. Not sure it's a first, as the rhizomorphs of Armillaria are also bio-luminescent. They were used in medieveal times to help light barns.

2. Possibly many others as well.

 

1. In WW-I, soldiers wore pieces of with rhizomorphs infected wood on their helmets to prevent bumping into each other at night in the trenches and in the river delta woodlands of the Biesbosch in The Netherlands, stumps infected with rhizomorphs were responsible for the late night phenomenon of will-o'-the-wisps or wildfire lights, causing people in row boats to think there was a house or a barn with the lights on, they could find shelter in.

2. Yes many others, among which other tropical Mycena species used by the Papua's from Papua New Guinea to leave behind on their way into the forest at strategic points to be able to find their way back while returning to their villages, Omphalotus illudens and Panellus stipticus.

[David Humphries]

1. In WW-I, soldiers wore pieces of with rhizomorphs infected wood on their helmets to prevent bumping into each other at night in the trenches and in the river delta woodlands of the Biesbosch in The Netherlands, stumps infected with rhizomorphs were responsible for the late night phenomenon of will-o'-the-wisps or wildfire lights, causing people in row boats to think there was a house or a barn with the lights on, they could find shelter in.

2. Yes many others, among which other tropical Mycena species used by the Papua's from Papua New Guinea to leave behind on their way into the forest at strategic points to be able to find their way back while returning to their villages, Omphalotus illudens and Panellus stipticus.

 

 

Do we know why this phenomenon exists?

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

Do we know why this phenomenon exists?

 

Why in meaning a reason for its existence or in meaning on what these bio-luminescent properties are based ?

[David Humphries]

Why in meaning a reason for its existence or in meaning on what these bio-luminescent properties are based ?

 

Reason for existance ?

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

Reason for existance ?

 

Although there is no scientific evidence for this, I dare to speculate, that Agaricales with soft lamellae, like Mycena's, Omphalotus and Panellus, use it to attract snails and slugs during night time, which by eating of the gills while moving all over them, contribute to the short distance dispersion of the spores by "glueing" them to woody substrates, which they "slide" over after finishing the meal.

As far as rhizomorphs are concerned, I think the purpose of them being bio-luminescent is to shed a light on their underground tracks while further stretching out in search of damaged, growing hormones secreting roots to prey on .

[David Humphries]

Although there is no scientific evidence for this, I dare to speculate, that Agaricales with soft lamellae, like Mycena's, Omphalotus and Panellus, use it to attract snails and slugs during night time, which by eating of the gills while moving all over them, contribute to the short distance dispersion of the spores by "glueing" them to woody substrates, which they "slide" over after finishing the meal.

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I'm liking that Gerrit

 

 

It's like night time diners with their neon signs outside

 

 

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[Fungus]

After first finding it on Acer in Poland, last week in Austria alongside a river passing Aurach (near Kitzbühel), I again documented Fomitopsis pinicola on six old Acer's, some still living, some dead, standing within one kilometre on the riverside. I was surprised by the differences in colours of the brackets, ranging from orange red to pale brown and even entirely grey.

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[David Humphries]

Great finds Gerrit

 

Wish we had that here

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

Wish we had that here

 

You wish, the trees don't .

[David Humphries]

You wish, the trees don't .

 

 

 

I'm sure we could spare some & put a few aside

 

 

 

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