A few fungi finds/IDs/ Questions ...

[Fungus]

do you also know what causes the odd bulbous growths on some planes? is it a high water table, and something like a possible neumataphore?

 

No, I can't answer that question. I don't think, however, that they are fungal based.

Edited September 25, 2011 by Fungus

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I will hunt down my images of them and see what you make of them.

[RobRainford]

Is the little bulge not a sphiroblast? (sp?) seem to see them on beech.

 

I was half right with the fungi The polyporus confused me a little though. The form was right but it's 'markings' weren't!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Is the little bulge not a sphiroblast? (sp?) seem to see them on beech.

 

I was half right with the fungi The polyporus confused me a little though. The form was right but it's 'markings' weren't!

 

The polypores are a huge group, even I get them wrong sometimes, last week i thought i found tuberaster, but as gerrit pointed out it didnt fit and my gut said so but being lazy i didnt look further into it.

[Fungus]

This type of small bulbous growth sometimes develops into a bark canker caused by Nectria ditissima ...

 

... or into bark and cambium necrosis causing deformation of large zones of the trunk with massive cankers as a result.

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