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[tommer9]

This was growing on a dead stick over a fast flowing stream, under a fairly wide spreading holly, in a wood consisting of mainly beech trees.

 

Apologies for the picture quality, mobile phone!

 

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

porcelain fungus oudemansiela mucida

[tommer9]

Ta Tony. Is that an unusual place to find it? It seemed quite weird to find a fungi on a small branch over fast moving water!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

its a beech twig, and no because of the high humidity the fungi will revel in the spot

[combined tree services]

thats a thingy aint it ? you know one of those things . lmao

[Fungus]

porcelain fungus oudemansiela mucida

 

With O. mucida fruiting on a branch close to or on the ground, always look up and try to determine where the branch broke off, because it often is an indicator of annual parasitic macrofungi (Meripilus giganteus, Armillaria species) attacking and killing a corresponding root from the end of the root towards the base of the trunk.

[tommer9]

With O. mucida fruiting on a branch close to or on the ground, always look up and try to determine where the branch broke off, because it often is an indicator of annual parasitic macrofungi (Meripilus giganteus, Armillaria species) attacking and killing a corresponding root from the end of the root towards the base of the trunk.

 

Directly above the stream was a holly tree. I suspect that the beech twig/ small branch MIGHT have been washed into place in flood and lodged between rocks. It is in a heavily (beech) wooded valley with one river and lots of tributary streams:

[RobArb]

May I borrow this pic tommer?

 

For a tilt shift effect:thumbup:

[scotspine1]

With O. mucida fruiting on a branch close to or on the ground, always look up and try to determine where the branch broke off, because it often is an indicator of annual parasitic macrofungi (Meripilus giganteus, Armillaria species) attacking and killing a corresponding root from the end of the root towards the base of the trunk.

 

how do you know this for sure? do you investigate all the roots of the trees you see displaying O. mucida in the crown?

 

 

 

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Edited July 10, 2011 by scotspine1

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

how do you know this for sure? do you investigate all the roots of the trees you see displaying O. mucida in the crown?

 

 

 

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O mucida is an endophyte, laying dormant within the tissues till the wood becomes dead, then the mucida begins its saprophytic stage. Small diameter twigs that die from shading are often/usually had by peniophoras and other crusts. So as Gerrit suggests it is often a larger branch or limb dying from a more significant basidiomycetes within the root system.

 

OFTEN/FREQUENTLY, not to say exclusively, just another observation to assist in evaluating tree health etc.