strange find on beech

[Ben Ballard]

These fruits appeared this year is this a inonotus or a gano or something else? the base of the tree is hollowing but no visable fruits there,above the growth a limb had fallen 5 years ago that had gano brackets on the fallen part.this tree is near a other beech that has some kind of inonotus,hama it the a tree you seen last year near the beech with the unknow inonotus you had a sample from:001_smile:

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

I think the malformed fertile layer is that of Ganoderma australe Ben.

 

 

 

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[sloth]

Bizarre indeed. Defo a gano on the fallen limb, applanatum?

[sloth]

I think the malformed fertile layer is that of Ganoderma australe Ben.

 

 

 

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What would cause the deformity? Plenty of fodder for australe on beech I'd have thought?

[David Humphries]

What would cause the deformity? Plenty of fodder for australe on beech I'd have thought?

 

I can imagine you'll get that answer from someone soon, who probably has a beter idea than I

 

 

 

 

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[Ben Ballard]

yes David the gano is the one you said i believe also on the trunk above the butress was a bit of a bleed,cheers for the replys:001_smile:

[Ben Ballard]

forgot to ad but when first found this a month ago it had droplets on the fruits

[Ben Ballard]

could it be pannic fruiting if this many has just appeared,so your saying they all ganoderma just deformed?the one on the fallen bit seemed like any other i seen .it a big beech with circumference of 5.5m at breast height

[Fungus]

What would cause the deformity? Plenty of fodder for australe on beech I'd have thought?

 

Yes, plenty of fodder, but if it is G. australe (and not the necrotrofic parasitic G. lipsiense), the fact that G. australe is a biotrophic parasitic perennial bracket fungus would explain for the deformation of the last formed (panic fruiting) brackets, because the mycelium is not capable of decomposing dead wood once the part of the tree it is fruiting from has died.

[sloth]

[ATTACH]74353[/ATTACH]yes David the gano is the one you said i believe also on the trunk above the butress was a bit of a bleed,cheers for the replys:001_smile:

 

If honey, maybe its competing with the gano, causing the p fruiting? Just a thought. Please shoot me down and enlighten me!

Edit. Just seen above, thanks