Fungi picture competition sponsored by Timberwolf

[Amelanchier]

That's a bread roll!

[Jason James Gairn]

Cobb fungus

[RC0]

Laetiporus sulphureus....about 15 ft up a mature oak, taken at the end of June. Other than that, the tree was if fine form

[Grasshopper]

not a verry sharp pic but it's a beauty!

[trees are good]

[David Humphries]

not a verry sharp pic but it's a beauty!

 

Really interesting study there Grasshopper.

 

Do you know anymore of the history of that dead Oak.

Has it been felled or fallen recently?

 

If that is Laetiporous, (picture abit fuzzy) then I'd imagine that situation is pretty rare as Chicken of the woods should be growing on standing trunks. I've never seen it on horizontal timber before, anyone else?

 

It would appear that the fruiting bodies have possibly become geotropic

 

http://science.jrank.org/pages/3032/Geotropism.html

 

 

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[Jamie]

While doing my RFS cert arb back in the day i asked if a limb with a bracket growing on it were to fall from a vertical to a horizontal position would the bracket shift its orientation. the lecturer never knew. a few months later i subsequently found a Ganoderma bracket that had altered its growth. the part on the stem was orientated 90 degrees to teh newer growth, which was pointing upwards.

 

Geotrophism in action, Is it phototrophism from the tope side to aim to keep the gills drier from teh rain or moist hidden from the sun?

 

Jamie

[Steve Bullman]

Steve, can the entries be from earlier posts, and will they be judged on picture quality or content or both?

 

Silly question I know, just want to clarify.

 

A number of very good entries so far.

 

Where you been John?

On Missus parole?

 

Cheers

 

David

 

 

 

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they can be pics you previously posted mate, so long as they are yours.

 

pics will be judged i guess on the most striking appearance

[Grasshopper]

Really interesting study there Grasshopper.

 

Do you know anymore of the history of that dead Oak.

Has it been felled or fallen recently?

 

If that is Laetiporous, (picture abit fuzzy) then I'd imagine that situation is pretty rare as Chicken of the woods should be growing on standing trunks. I've never seen it on horizontal timber before, anyone else?

 

It would appear that the fruiting bodies have possibly become geotropic

 

http://science.jrank.org/pages/3032/Geotropism.html

 

 

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hey monkeyd

 

the oak was felled about 2 or 3 years ago.

i'll try to get a better picture maby today if it's still in the same glory as it was!

[Will Hinchliffe]

 

If that is Laetiporous, (picture abit fuzzy) then I'd imagine that situation is pretty rare as Chicken of the woods should be growing on standing trunks. I've never seen it on horizontal timber before, anyone else?

 

 

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I have seen it on pieces of fallen oak. On one piece I have seen fruiting bodies for the past 3 years. I also believe you can buy Laetepourous spores to inoculate logs with so you can grow it to eat without destroying wild brackets.