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

[Jake Andrews]

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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Surely you've had a guess before David.Can you differentiate on site with a microscope or is it a lab test?

[David Humphries]

Surely you've had a guess before David.Can you differentiate on site with a microscope or is it a lab test?

 

That's the point Jake

 

I've had what I would describe as an educated 'guess' in the past and been proven wrong via microscope by mycologists at the Jodrell laboratory at Kew and by my tame local mycologist.

 

 

Guessing is part of the journey but it really needs to go further to keep on learning about this 'stuff'

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Hahaha someone has been reading Stamets!.

 

Consider your self pardoned

 

 

I don't own a copy of Stamets, he evaded me when he visited the Heath a few years ago, which I've not forgiven him for yet.

 

 

But for the record, he'd never heard of me or new that I even existed, so he should probably be pardoned n'all

 

 

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[sean]

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

 

Isn't there a way to distinguish between the 2? With Chicken there are apparent while mycelial sheets between the cubes but not so with Fistulina?

Or did I make that up at some point?

[Kveldssanger]

Consider your self pardoned

 

 

I don't own a copy of Stamets, he evaded me when he visited the Heath a few years ago, which I've not forgiven him for yet.

 

 

But for the record, he'd never heard of me or new that I even existed, so he should probably be pardoned n'all

 

 

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Plenty of pardoning for one post, there!

 

 

Isn't there a way to distinguish between the 2? With Chicken there are apparent while mycelial sheets between the cubes but not so with Fistulina?

Or did I make that up at some point?

 

Don't think you're going mad, as I think I have read the same.

[Jake Andrews]

Isn't there a way to distinguish between the 2? With Chicken there are apparent while mycelial sheets between the cubes but not so with Fistulina?

Or did I make that up at some point?

 

That's interesting Sean. In any case it looked as though the consultant who carried out the inspection had a good poke round and mash up a lot of the inside so no mycelial sheets (that I noticed). There was an apparent large bees nest within the cavity last year aswel, was a great habitat tree.

[Kveldssanger]

I know David shared a shot of bees on a cavity with Fistulina, a week or so back.

[Jake Andrews]

Hmmmm, wonder if bees prefer a 'type of rot' for their hive. Maybe it could help with a fungi I.D.

[Kveldssanger]

Probably a Phd in there somewhere, as well!

[Jake Andrews]

Now there's a thought🤔