Hamadryads diary- a new chapter

[Fungus]

Hows that?

 

Convincing enough .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Had a little walk round WW yesterday and on my way back to the car spotted some fungi high on a branch, I knew being beech they would be either O. mucida or Oysters of some form but was too tired after a days graft and two hours trek through the wilderness. So went back this evening on my way home with a rope and harness to capture them, and found these B. adustas even higher up. The tree has lost a few small branches over the years but the last few photos show a major stem failure with included bark, a standard feature amoung old forest grown fagus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fungus]

beech Oysters ... and these B. adustas even higher up.

 

Nice pic's , especially of the guttating B. adusta, a rare phenomenon for this annual bracket fungus producing polyaromatic hydrocarbons.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Nice pic's , especially of the guttating B. adusta, a rare phenomenon for this annual bracket fungus producing polyaromatic hydrocarbons.

 

Thanks Gerrit, must admit I've not see B. adusta with guttation before:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have had the most wonderful day today, I decided that putting in the stud wall in the bedroom was not for me this fine wet day, nope, a trip to burnham was on my mind and Oh my, im glad I went! anyone who follows my threads will know the new one for me, the toothy aromatic earthfan Sistotrema confluens, some laetiporus sulphureus on standing dead Oak that ive been checking for a couple of years always too late and in previous years just found old chalky remains, this time, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, AWESOME CHICKEN!

 

A lot of stuff today various bits and pieces, Chanterelles, Ganos, Exidias, and a staggering amount of Scleroderma citrinum which has some kind of relationship with the wood ants if only that the substrate of the nest is at a particular state of breakdown which suits this flexible fungi.

 

And for you Gerrit, well I have a few special bits to show you later in your Q and A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Look at this photo! inonotus dryadeus on beech, i am stunned and very jealous, what a great image and observation. for me this is the image of the year

 

Inonotus dryadeus

[Fungus]

Look at this photo! inonotus dryadeus on beech, i am stunned and very jealous, what a great image and observation. for me this is the image of the year

 

Tony,

Great documentation of a tree host I've not seen I. dryadeus on before. Did you notice the necrotic bark and cambium cankers above the FB's ?

And do you want the before uploaded fungi ID-ed ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

Great documentation of a tree host I've not seen I. dryadeus on before. Did you notice the necrotic bark and cambium cankers above the FB's ?

And do you want the before uploaded fungi ID-ed ?

 

You know i noticed:biggrin: its a stunning image isnt it, so glad I saw it, really opens it up for me, having never seen it on another species other than oak in the past, even a different wood entirely, would be facinating to see its effects on the wood of beech (diffuse porus)

 

as for idents above, only the last black crust on oak twig, and the suspected stigma?

[Fungus]

1. the toothy aromatic earthfan Sistotrema confluens

 

1. If you mean the fungi in the first two photo's, isn't this the ectomycorrhizal Hydnum repandum ?

2. My guess would be, that both the suspected stigma and the black crust on an oak twig are Diatrype stigma.

3. What is your identification of the resupinate greyish crust with black dots or pores (?) on/in the surface ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

1. If you mean the fungi in the first two photo's, isn't this the ectomycorrhizal Hydnum repandum ?

2. My guess would be, that both the suspected stigma and the black crust on an oak twig are Diatrype stigma.

3. What is your identification of the resupinate greyish crust with black dots or pores (?) on/in the surface ?

 

1) your a .... sometimes! i will come back to this with another post in a moment!

2) I will give thee D stigma for the oak twig:001_smile:

3) I would think Hypoxylon mummularium in its initial and then next image in the black final phase?