Dual Decay

[David Humphries]

Brown & White rot once more, on this fine oak.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Brown & White rot once more, on this fine oak.

 

the Inonotus was noted to be fruiting in july 2010 & the Laetiporus seen today

 

I haven't noted the two to be fruiting at the same time on this tree.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Daedalea quercina here on an oak stump, but not on the felled trunk which has Laetiporus fruiting.

 

makes me think the Daedalea has invaded after the fell, with the Laeti keeping it out of the trunk.

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Some very nice documentation here David, nice work as always.

[treeseer]

Stupendous battles there tween tree and fung and fung.

 

Or are they just the dances of coevolution?

[David Humphries]

Meripilus giganteus and Ganoderma applanatum

 

 

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[David Humphries]

an interesting combo on me favourite monolith, which also hosts Meripilus, Daldinia & Coprinus

however yesterdays show were the fine & dandy Gymnopilus junonius the spectacular rustgill & Abortiporus biennis the blushing rossette

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Historically storm damaged beech with Pholiota aurivella fruiting from a cut stub surface on one stem and Fomes fomentarius fruiting from the bark on the other stem.

 

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[David Humphries]

Ganoderma resinaceum here on oak with what appears to be Inonotus cuticularis (the clustered bracket) below it.

Alinicoll with the steer toward I. cuticularis.

 

I. cuticularis is more usually found associating with beech.

There are a only a handful of records of it in the Uk on oak, so fairly uncommon.

 

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[David Humphries]

Ganoderma resinaceum here on oak with what appears to be Inonotus cuticularis (the clustered bracket) below it.......

 

 

Intrigued by the close proximity and seemingly rare association we took a slice through the oak to look at the two decays.

 

 

You can see from the still attached (but sliced) cuticularis brackets, that the I. c decay is significantly different to the rest of the cross section which affected by the decay of the Ganoderma which is noted as colonising via selective delignification.

 

 

The border of the cuticularis decay has been enclosed by a thin dark psuedosclerotial plate which is keeping the resinaceum decay from breaching its own section of the wood volume.

 

 

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