Yesterday's rare bracket fungi.

[Fungus]

Some rare finds, that were shown to the participants of the field trip following yesterday's mini-symposium on the Tree Species Specific Ecosystem in Maastricht.

1. About 35 years old Fomes fomentarius on Aesculus. There were 10 perennial brackets of Fomes in total on the trunk of the recently heavily pollarded tree. In the most southern region of The Netherlands, Fomes fomentarius is mostly found on Populus and Aesculus.

2. Inonotus cuticularis (notice the unfinished woodpecker's hole) on a beech, that also had very small panic fruiting of Meripilus giganteus at the trunk's base. One half of the bifurcated tree meanwhile had died and was covered with FB's of Diatrype stigma peeling off the bark.

3/4. A young FB and older vandalized FB's of Ganoderma pfeifferi on the trunk's base of two grafted "notary" beeches.

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