fungi help!- free pint for first correct answer!

[showoffsummer]

My boss emailed me this picture yesterday wanting to know what it is, im 75% sure I know what it is I just want to be certain.

 

so if anyone is sure what it is please say and whoever is first person to get it right I will get you a pint at the next arbshow or arbfair north... if you remember:001_tt2:

 

cheers ciaran glyde

[showoffsummer]

new I forgot somthing!

[showoffsummer]

after looking at the bigger picture for the first time, im now pretty sure its polyporus squamoses, please someone back me up!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

merip or chicken, depending on tree species

 

reckon its meripilus

[s.varty]

new I forgot somthing!

 

i would of said firstly stereum hirsutum, but as it has stems then i would say you are probably maybe right. If it is polyporus then i know what your having for breakfast.

[showoffsummer]

Forgot to mention it was found on Quercus ixex

 

Cheers ciaran Glyde

[Fungus]

merip or chicken, depending on tree species ... reckon its meripilus

 

Glyde,

If you scratch the pores with your finger nail and the scratches blacken within some to several hours or a day while drying, you're 100 % sure it's Meripilus giganteus. And as far as I know, there is no documentation of its effect on Q. ilex.

Edited July 19, 2011 by Fungus

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Glyde,

If you scratch the pores with your finger nail and the scratches blacken within some to several hours or a day while drying, you're 100 % sure it's Meripilus giganteus. And as far as I know, there is no documentation of its effect on Q. ilex.

 

 

Never seen it on Q. Ilex and there is little documentation of its effects on most if not ALL Oak sp, although ive at least two images of windblown oaks both robur with meripilus on their root plates.

[Fungus]

there is little documentation of its effects on most if not ALL Oak sp, although ive at least two images of windblown oaks both robur with meripilus on their root plates.

 

In The Netherlands, the effect (risk of wind throw) of M. giganteus om Quercus rubra is well documented, with panic fruiting of both the tree and the fungus after ten to fifteen years after the first brackets of M. giganteus turned up.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

In The Netherlands, the effect (risk of wind throw) of M. giganteus om Quercus rubra is well documented, with panic fruiting of both the tree and the fungus after ten to fifteen years after the first brackets of M. giganteus turned up.

 

good to know