Hamadryads diary- a new chapter

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

Nice and well kept "natural" garden, for the owners.

Photo 6 : Lactarius deliciosus.

Photo 7 : Clavaria vermicularis.

Photo 8 : I assume you mean Hygrocybes, not Agrocybes, because this is Hygrocybe psittacina.

 

Yes I did mean that and knew it was psittacina, but not sure of the spelling without a book! the only one i did not know was the first:thumbup1: but i knew you would clarify!

 

what do you think of the situation with the pholiottas gerrit, fair assumption? i mean to check the seeds as soon as possible too.

[Fungus]

the situation with the pholiotas ... fair assumption?

 

Yes, P. squarrosa being a biotrophic parasite, I think it is .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yes, P. squarrosa being a biotrophic parasite, I think it is .

 

Thanks, also for correcting my darn awful spelling!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

This would have gone to a top london restauraunt had i found it sooner, on my watch and patch too, so a bit gutted its gone over and wont add to the scope fund, but it still brought a smile to the old hamadryad:001_cool:

 

My biggest to date, awesome :thumbup:Grifola frondosa

 

[Ben Ballard]

Nice one thats huge will make a fair few quid if you know a chef

[Fungus]

My biggest to date, awesome Grifola frondosa

 

Nice one, Tony,

My wife and I just had the much smaller one in the photo I found yesterday for diner.

[David Humphries]

My biggest to date, awesome

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That's the weirdest looking Carp shot I've ever seen

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That's the weirdest looking Carp shot I've ever seen

 

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I wonder what my next pursuit will be? will i one day be shot in this fasho=ion with a titan beetle?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

An excellent day at croft castle with the arbtalkers, Me and Czhey also went on to another local site after where we found some stonking ash pollards.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

ATF @ sherwood forest today, was an eventfull day with great discussions, a telling off from Ted the vet! and a brilliant chat with dr lonsdale which was most illuminating to say the least, he gave me some ideas on how to test my hypothesis! cool beans!

 

Todays fungi are rather special, special in that all these birches are on the same site, and with very close proximity and not isolated examples.

 

normaly each one of these fungi would tend to dominate the ecological niche of recycling old or dying birches, on this site all three where doing the job! a rare site indeed!

 

So Fommes fomentarius (tinder bracket or horses hoof), piptoporus betulinus (the razor strop) and inonotus obliques ( the clinker polypore) all on birch within a hundred yards of one another. I guess you need to be a freak like me to know just how cool this is!