What Fungi (advanced level!)

[David Humphries]

Laetiporus for sure

 

Good thread Arob, could be the start of a sad new arby game

 

Not advocating the picking of fungi though

 

 

 

 

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[Arob]

I think it's the future

[Arob]

An old bracket here, pic taken today - any guesses?

[benedmonds]

Inonotus hispidus

[Arob]

Too easy.

 

(Serves me right for having a hidden agenda - trying to draw back the crowds drawn to the competition thread - and bumping it up without a better challenge )

 

Having been looking at the fungi competition thread and seeing the geotropic Laetiporus sulphureus on the fallen wood I thought I'd post a couple of pics I took today.

 

Am trying to find out as much as I can about Ih on ash as there is an issue close to home, but haven't found too much so far (any pointers welcome).

I suspect (or perhaps hope!) that this branch may have been dropped as a result of brittle fracture - have seen loads of ash with Ih brackets, massive dieback and a few straggly dead limbs but this is the closest I've come to seeing a brittle fracture.

 

Pics taken on camera phone so are of usual poor quality, but hopefully of some use.

 

Fracture shows total loss of mechanical strength in infected wood (core) but surrounding wood (particularly lower part where joined stem) shows tearing and structural integrity and strength of wood.

 

(Is geotrophic as bracket appears to have re-oriented itself since the branch hit the deck.)

[Arob]

Any guesses on this one?

[David Humphries]

Pholiota squarrosa - Shaggy polypore?

 

What is it on, rob?

 

 

 

 

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[Arob]

It's on a Beech, overed in dead ivy, just above head height. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford a half decent camera, until then you'll just have to squint and use your imagination a little!

[Bundle 2]

Again, most the literature I'm reading indicates the Pholiota is at the base...but they are canny creatures n.est pas? It is plausible that it is not present as primary, parasitic fungus......If present as white rot, always in conjunction with a another pathogen.

the stem shows signs of stress typical of white rot...I could be wrong!!?