fungi on ash dead limb

[Ben Ballard]

had a feeling i was going to find something good today even if i didnt have a clue what it was:lol:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yes, I already noticed, so after looking through my tree hosts of Phellinus species files, one can choose between P. contiguus or P. punctatus, which both mostly are resupinate, and P. robustus, which mostly is ungulate to applanate, or P. torulosus, which mostly is sessile to pileate, so a bracket has to be taken down for (microscopical) identification.

 

I will be collecting a sample in due course, eah ben!

[Ben Ballard]

 

 

A few more pics from last week of how this fungi is going , be interesting when hama finds out what it is ,i imagine with the size of the crack its days are numbered be good if it coppices when snaps when it does.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ben, looks like i need to pay you a visit pretty soon!

[Ben Ballard]

sweet will have to sort something out soon and have a look at the lime

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Works funny, ive had no weekend work for ages, months and months and now ive got it coming out of my ears!

 

be good to catch up and wiegh up the lime.

[Pete Bannister]

It'll be interesting to see what that is! Looks like P. punctatus to me?..but I dont think I’ve ever noted P robustus. I thought this FB to be punctatus . Found it causing white rot on previously saturated Beech window frames ( very odd choice of timber for windows! ) in a sheltered S-E facing un-heated part of a brick building surrounded by broadleaf garden/woodland on The Wirral ( posh bit of Merseyside N-W England).

Colour has faded a bit now, which is a shame because it was vibrant cinnamon

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I reckon its going to be punctatus

[Fungus]

It'll be interesting to see what that is! Looks like P. punctatus to me?..but I dont think I’ve ever noted P robustus. I thought this FB to be punctatus. Found it causing white rot on previously saturated Beech window frames (very odd choice of timber for windows! ) in a sheltered S-E facing un-heated part of a brick building surrounded by broadleaf garden/woodland on The Wirral ( posh bit of Merseyside N-W England). Colour has faded a bit now, which is a shame because it was vibrant cinnamon

 

Pete,

It can't be Phellinus robustus, because that's a biotrophic parasite, so it probably is the saprotrophic P. punctatus .

[RobArb]

It'll be interesting to see what that is! Looks like P. punctatus to me?..but I dont think I’ve ever noted P robustus. I thought this FB to be punctatus . Found it causing white rot on previously saturated Beech window frames ( very odd choice of timber for windows! ) in a sheltered S-E facing un-heated part of a brick building surrounded by broadleaf garden/woodland on The Wirral ( posh bit of Merseyside N-W England).

Colour has faded a bit now, which is a shame because it was vibrant cinnamon

 

The Wirral ain't posh:lol: