Xerxses fungal findings...

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Another plentifull and favourite becase it's pretty...

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Some more...

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Another plentifull and favourite becase it's pretty...

 

I also found Fomitopsis pinicola in Sweden on birch and I found it once on an old cherry in the garden of a stuga we rented just outside/north of Rättvik.

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I also found Fomitopsis pinicola in Sweden on birch and I found it once on an old cherry in the garden of a stuga we rented just outside/north of Rättvik.

 

I have found it on birch aswell but wasn´t able to id it at first because its very atypical morphology... but cherry?!? Thats a bit weird I'd say... Did it look typical?

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These were around too...

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Havent got a clue...

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New friend in my little forest... Lots of dogs around!

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New friend in my little forest... Lots of dogs around!

 

Tobias,

I suppose you suggest a relationship between Witches' Butter (Fuligo septica) and dog urin/excrements, but there is no direct association, because myxomycetes "graze" on whatever substrate rich of bacteria, fungal tissue (spores) and plant debris.

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Havent got a clue...

 

Tobias,

It's a Cortinarius species from the C. flexipes s.l. complex :

- if it smells like Pelargonium, it may be C. paleaceus,

- if it has no distinct smell and is an ectomycorrhizal symbiont of Betula, it may be C. hemitrichus and

- if it has no smell and is associated with Picea it may be C. pilatii.

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1. I have found it on birch as well but wasn´t able to id it at first because its very atypical morphology...

2. but cherry?!? Thats a bit weird I'd say... Did it look typical?

 

Tobias,

1. I thought your first photo was on Betula.

2. Yes, it did, just like in photo 2 from Bavaria/Germany.

I've seen it on Fagus (Benelux, Germany), on Betula (Benelux : photo 1), on Picea (Benelux, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic), on Abies (Bavaria/Germany, Sumava/Czech Republic), on Acer (Poland, Austria) and on Prunus (Sweden, Bavaria/Germany : photo 2).

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Edited September 17, 2011 by Fungus