Beech & Honey fungus thread

[Paul Smith]

Great post, don't know how I missed the original post!

[Fungus]

Great post, don't know how I missed the original post

 

Did you also miss my album on Honey fungus, my Quercus robur & Armillaria ostoyae thread and my Pinus & Armillaria ostoyae thread ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

David,

 

As you suggested, the large area of cambial dysfunction with superficial white rot by the mycelium covered with melanine plaques is caused by Armillaria mellea s.s. And do you mean P. squarrosa with the Pholiota species you think to be present too ?

By the way, I found some rather unexpected new information on A. mellea. In "Macrofungi associated with oaks of Eastern North America (Binion, et al., 2008), the authors say, that in Eastern Asia : "Armillaria mellea forms a mycorrhizal relationship with the orchid Gastrodia elata" and in The United States "is often parasitized by the Pink gill species Entoloma abortivum."

 

thats good info:thumbup1:

[Paul Smith]

Thanks!