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David Humphries
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  • 3 weeks later...
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. :001_smile:

 

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.

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  • 1 month later...
When Brown & White decay inhabit the same space :scared1:

 

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 :sneaky2:)

 

A selection of Monocoroshadowfellinghabitatation

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  • 4 months later...
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.:thumbup1:

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