Fungi ID?

[Arbgirl]

Evening all

 

I wonder if you could help me with a fungal ID please

 

It has me totally stumped (!) but it's probably very bleedin' obvious but I am having a dim moment (it's my age you know, . . . during the war. . . .).

 

If you could help I would be very grateful

 

Seen on Oak in last 2 weeks.

Edited November 24, 2011 by Arbgirl

[Arbgirl]

It might be possible that it is also/instead growing on the hawthorn stem growing out of the bottom of the oak (shown left of the bracket) .

[Fungus]

It has me totally stumped (!) but it's probably very bleedin' obvious. Seen on Oak in last 2 weeks.

 

Arbgirl,

With tobacco brown spores ? If so, Agrocybe cylindracea (= A. aegerita), a species seldom found on other tree species than poplar or willow, so not that bleedin' obvious .

[Arbgirl]

I took this shot as well (further fungus lower down)

 

1st fruitbodies were at about 1.5m

[Arbgirl]

Thanks fungus

 

What are the implications for tree health as I am not familiar with this one?

[Fungus]

What are the implications for tree health as I am not familiar with this one?

 

Don't know, as I've never seen it on Quercus before. In (pollarded) Populus and Salix it's a fast white rotter (further) hollowing the trunk. But looking at the second photo, I wonder whether it could be Gymnopilus junonius instead.

Edited November 24, 2011 by Fungus

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

lloks more like a pholiota sp to me? tell me more!

[Arbgirl]

I shall go and re-investigate then and take my mallet!

 

Tree has grown round a barbed wire fence and has other trees growing through it but is close to a lightly (barely) used footpath so will inform landowner it may require investigation

 

 

One thing though, I didn't see any obvious evidence of rings on the stem?

Edited November 24, 2011 by Arbgirl

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

its there

[Fungus]

looks more like a pholiota sp to me? tell me more!

 

Tony,

The only Pholiota looking like this is P. populnea, which is tree species specific to Populus.