Fomes fomentarius

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It may have latent tendencies, but it's still a sporulator last time I looked..

 

you knew what i meant!

 

that its ever present in wood, even if not in the habitats, and that it is more likely a recycling fungi as opposed to an aggressive parasite if it is as they say and endo sleeping type

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Fomes sporalating at the noo

 

here, caught on spiders threads

 

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[David Humphries]

F. fomentarius on birch in London

 

Trunk appears to be left standing as a monolith for its biodiversity value.

 

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[sean]

Nice find mate. That will be toppling over soon enough. Where in London is it?

[David Humphries]

English Heritage Estate Kenwood

 

 

 

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[Dryad's saddle]

Any piptoporus betulinus ?

[David Humphries]

Any piptoporus betulinus ?

 

 

Lots

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Hoof !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gary Prentice]

Fascinating, the similarities and differences in successive layers, even in closely situated fruit bodies.

[David Humphries]

12 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

Fascinating, the similarities and differences in successive layers, even in closely situated fruit bodies.

Isn’t it !

 

I went to a heathland site yesterday where there were literally many hundreds of Fomes brackets, would be a fantastic site to study the combative nature of Fomes fomentarius and Fomitopsis betulinus in close and abundent proximity within the same wood volumes. 
 

Hope this finds you doing well Gary?