Fungal Feeding Frenzy

[Bundle 2]

Seen here on plum...but reading that robinia is candidate...(?) anyone....

 

http://www.english-country-garden.com/a/i/fungus/phellinus-tuberculosus-1.jpg

 

http://www.english-country-garden.com/a/i/fungus/phellinus-tuberculosus-3.jpg

[Amelanchier]

Went back today while passing. Make that eight different species!

 

Flammulina velutipes

[Bundle 2]

I dont think the stems are dark enough for Flammulina eh?? ( or two-toned wood-tuft kuehneromyces mutabilis..? )

 

They look very waxy..or wre they wet...almost looks like pholiota?

Edited November 7, 2008 by Bundle 2

[Amelanchier]

Well I thought Pholiota at first but the caps aren't really scaly enough?!? - what you see is mostly debris. It had been raining as well. Could be though...

 

Still 8 species on the same tree- cool eh??

[Bundle 2]

Plain greedy!!!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

your phelinus, may be robustus, not Tuberculosis im certain of that, too big by far

 

the last and 8th species is p. aurivella and the lack of velum scales is due to rain. one of my personal faves is the golden scaly cap, a stunning fungi.

[sean freeman]

Brilliant pictures Tony....as Bundle said plain greedy....present you with some interesting mental imagery though those competing (well some of them) fungi for volumes of wood tissue, producing antifungal secretions, wonderfully complex since many produce the same secretions to which (naturaly enough) they have an immunity!..and all of this happening in 3D over very variable time frames...fungi shifting from primary to secondary decomposers perhaps even teriary decomposers, saprophytes becoming facultative parasites makes your head spin.....I love it!!!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It is a deep and chalenging subject, one that has consumed me like a fine rot and glad to see the infection is widespread too!