Quercus robur & Collybia fusipes thread

[Fungus]

As I've seen much more fruitings of Collybia fusipes since the end of July on roots and trunk bases of Quercus robur, then I've documented in The Netherlands over the past ten years, I open this thread with some photo's of clusters of FB's and the damage done to the trees by the simultaneous white rot causing mycelium of this biotrophic parasite of broadleaved trees.

 

Photo 1 : Fruiting on the trunk base of an old oak with bark necrosis and loose bark at ground level.

Photo 2 : Clusters of FB's fruiting around the tree base of a young oak.

Photo 3 : Crown of the tree in photo 2.

Photo 4/5 : Trunk base, buttresses and roots of an old oak with bark necrosis, white rot and old FB's.

Photo 6 : Trunkbase of an old oak with first time fruiting of C. fusipes.

Photo 7 : Trunk base of an oak with shedded bark and a crack out of which C. fusipes fruited last year.

Photo 8 : Infected trunk base with bark necrosis and shedded bark.

Edited August 29, 2011 by Fungus

[Gollum]

I'm assuming this is the same, but on robur.

 

 

[Fungus]

I'm assuming this is the same, but on robur.

 

Gollum,

Correct , but not "the same, but on robur", but "the same, also on robur", unless you mean on Q. rubra, to which an infection does far more and much faster damage, then C. fusipes does to Q. robur.

[Gollum]

Gollum,

Correct , but not "the same, but on robur", but "the same, also on robur", unless you mean on Q. rubra, to which an infection does far more and much faster damage, then C. fusipes does to Q. robur.

 

Once I deciphered that I did mean Q robur