Dual Decay

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

now I know how to upload photos tommorow i will put some of the best examples of thier species youll ever likely see!

 

its been fun guys, but tis late and i got a full days climbing tommorow, and fatigue at the end of the day sucks! time for some shut eye

[David Humphries]

Night night hama, don't let the fungi bugs bite

 

Have a good days climb on the morrow.

 

climb safe, and don't forget ya camera

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

lol I am still here! i get carried away with this stuff, it consumes me, like a rampant mycelial infection its got me! but its a fine rot and I intend to spread the infection far and wide!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

As promised, a lovely old Oak pollard with more than its fair-share of decay fungi. Who’d going to be brave and I.D. the desiccated example (growing in small clumps around the root plate)?

 

Looks like I’ll be ok for fire-wood this winter.

 

Dont forget about the polyporus umbellatus, no difference from an implications point of view but positive ident of grifola is not as easy as a walk by! and any record worth loging with the bms

 

Polyporus umbellatus fruits from the ground, near the bases and roots of hardwoods across northern North America. It is apparently fairly rare, and is encountered far less frequently than the somewhat similar Grifola frondosa. The fruiting body consists of many small, smoky brown, roundish caps (as opposed to the larger, fan-shaped and irregular caps of Grifola frondosa); the undersurfaces are white; and the individual branches are fused together into one solid structure.

 

Description:

 

Ecology: Saprobic or parasitic on the roots and wood of hardwoods; causing a white rot; fruiting at the bases of trees; summer and fall; widely distributed in northern North America, southwards to Tennessee and Kansas.

 

Fruiting Body: Cluster 30-50 cm across or more; individual caps 1-4 cm, circular, pale smoky brown or whitish; pore surface white, running down the stems; 2-4 pores per mm; stem branches white, irregular, central to the caps, fusing into one or more larger stem structures; arising from an underground knot of tissue.

 

Flesh: Firm; white.

 

Odor and Taste: Mild.

 

Spore Print: White.

 

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-9.5 x 3-4 µ; smooth; cylindrical.

 

REFERENCES: (Persoon, 1801) Fries, 1821. (Saccardo, 1888; Overholts, 1953; Smith, Smith & Weber, 1981; Arora, 1986; Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1987; Lincoff, 1992; Barron, 1999; Roody, 2003.) Herb. Kuo 09190301.

 

Grifola umbellata is a synonym.

[David Humphries]

When Brown & White decay inhabit the same space

 

Laetiporus sulphureus - Cubical brown rot

Ganoderma spp (possibly applanatum) - White rot

 

It does what it says on the tin

 

Observed between 23-09 & 08-10

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Finally got round to removing the Hazard (couldn't move the target )

 

A selection of Monocoroshadowfellinghabitatation

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You get all the good jobs david!

[David Humphries]

Very interesting combo........

 

Fomes fomentarius, which has been on this Oak for a good few years, now accompanied by Ganoderma resinaceum.

 

Simultaneous white rot (Fomes) & Selective delignifyer (Ganoderma - white rot)

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

third image, if they dont become lucidums as the open out i will be stunned, please please please if they do take me to em, oh please !

 

I will be your fwiend for ever and ever!

[David Humphries]

Had ofcourse crossed my mind, but there's heaps of resinaceum around.

 

Though these do appear to have the formations of stems.

 

I'll get back and keep check on developement

 

 

I'm still plumbing for resinaceums at this point.

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Had ofcourse crossed my mind, but there's heaps of resinaceum around.

 

Though these do appear to have the formations of stems.

 

I'll get back and keep check on developement

 

 

I'm still plumbing for resinaceums at this point.

 

 

 

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fancy a wager?

 

£10.00 make it interesting! top host too Oak.