Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....

[Jake Andrews]

Do you know of they are all from the same species?

[Kveldssanger]

They look more like Ganoderma australe than they do Ganoderma applanatum, though it's hard to tell from outward appearance. Green & Watson say australe is much tougher and doesn't crack atop under only low to moderate pressure, and has the outer 'lip' that rolls outwards. Applanatum also seems to be much more planar, whilst australe sometimes looks a bit like a hoof.

[Jake Andrews]

I was thinking australe also from the lip, although I know how hard to tell it is. They are all from different stages but not associated with the cavity as far as I know. The cavity has an advanced brown rot but the fungi hasn't showed it's face yet.

[Kveldssanger]

Probably Laetiporus, I would say (either going to be that or Fistulina).

[Jake Andrews]

I hadn't considered Laetiporus but I think that's because my mind was made up on wanting it to be Fistulina 😂

[Kveldssanger]

I have seen Fistulina up in the crown a few times, though usually it's chicken. Would have to wait and see to get a conclusive ID, of course.

[David Humphries]

Applanatum/schmaplanatum

 

Text books confuse and contradict the issue of determining appla/australe via morphological/macro features.

 

My advice (for what it's worth) is to not go down the guessing route with these two.

 

Spore + microscope the only sure fire way to tell between the two.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

For old brackets like that, is there a way of positively IDing them then? Spores are likely not going to be available in such heavily degraded ones?

[David Humphries]

Ask someone who knows

 

 

 

 

and if your post count continues to increase on a fungi photo thread........without posting any fungi photos, you will be summarily impregnated with cordycep spore which will turn you into a zombiefied tree officer that crawls up the nearest dead tree before a sporophore erupts from your cortex and sporulates fung dust everywhere

 

 

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Edited April 14, 2016 by David Humphries

[Kveldssanger]

Hahaha someone has been reading Stamets! Considering fungi may perhaps infect the brain more readily than we previously thought, maybe there's going to be some mass migration to the tops of dead whitebeams!?

 

So my additions are, so I don't pull the aforementioned stunt:

 

FIRST IMAGE: Suspected wolf's milk (Lycogala epidendrum) on a hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) stump, complete with honey fungus (Armillaria sp.) rhizomorphs.

 

SECOND IMAGE: The remnants of what appears to be a very old Ganoderma resinaceum on a very lovely mature oak tree (Quercus robur).

 

THIRD IMAGE: The stumpgrinder (Pseduotrametes gibbosa) chilling amongst the remnants of spent turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) sporophores, on the top surface of a hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) stump.

 

FOURTH IMAGE: A cheeky Salix-borne Daedaleopsis confragosa gets rekt with sound wavez from an ARBOTOM (not shouting, honest!!!!!!!!).

 

FIFTH IMAGE: Ganoderma austrannatum on cherry (Prunus sp.), complete with ARBOTOM sensors blasting sound through the butt to check for sound wood.