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

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That's a coincidence: found a dryads saddle on an Acer yesterday as well, but not sure which species of Acer. Any ideas?

 

And another one on Salix, today.

 

Interesting image this one, because it is polyporus tuberaster, and a very fine example too. It is distinguished from squamosus by the fact it has a more centralised stipe, rather than the offset one of squamosus.

 

Pucka images guys i love this thread!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Any ideas anyone just started growing. I have not seen one that looks like this before i did think it was sparassis brevipes but i am not sure now as it seems to be changing.

 

sneaky suspicion the mystery fungus is a clump of forming grifola frondosa!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

just a few more from the archives of the Hama to share with you alls!

 

Inonotus dryadeus

An ongoing project, we reduced the tree which is situated in a high target area (edge of carpark and dorms to london school of theology)

 

Lepista nuda The wood blewitt

 

bjerkandera adjusta Smokey bracket

 

Auricularia auriculare-judea the the jews ear

 

Armillaria mellea mycelium, note the fan pattern, classic.

Edited February 2, 2010 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[anadromous]

The velvet shank is edible, and the cultivated form known as nobuki in japan is unrecognisable as it is forced in the dark and grown in jars, this keeps it in a young energy rich form as it seeks the light to fruit fully, they become long and bleached. Highly prized in Japan.

 

I think the cultivated variety is known as Enoki and the wild one as Nametake! i saw in a previous thread you mentioned you'd grown some oysters on logs, I've just started some Shiitake on Beech logs- hoping for some success in a years time!

[sean]

Armillaria mellea mycelium, note the fan pattern, classic.

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Now that is a work of art....me like it.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think the cultivated variety is known as Enoki and the wild one as Nametake! i saw in a previous thread you mentioned you'd grown some oysters on logs, I've just started some Shiitake on Beech logs- hoping for some success in a years time!

 

Well, acording to the master, paul stamets whos book i have right here flammulina velutipes is know as Enokitake, or enoki in forced jars. well done for picking that up, my bad, but your only half right so no gold stars!

[David Humphries]

Had a little meander through a local woods today whilst me boy was at a "soccer" party.

 

Didn't have me camera, but the mobile played a substitutes role, although the LG is no David Fairclough.

 

Xylaria hypoxylon - candle snuff, & Xylaria longipes - dead molls fingers, on Hornbeam coppice.

 

Chondostereum purpureum - Silve Leaf fungus, on another Hornbeam stump.

 

& a USS Enterprise inspired Razor strop - Piptoporus betulinus, with something odd going on around the margin.

Parasitic fungus?

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Good spot on the piptoporus david, I saw a double headed bracket like this a season or two ago, got the photo somewhere. Maybe this parasite causes the double up of the fruit body? like a nematode causing root blastamania? just a thought to put out there!

[David Humphries]

This Beech has featured before, but here's a newish bracket of Ganoderma pfeifferi - beeswax bracket (note the yellowish waxy coating i've scraped off as an Id feature)

and on an old prunning wound 4/5 meters above on the rhs, is what looks like Auricularia mesenterica - tripe fungus.

But I've gone and deleted the close up, doh !

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Are there any plans to lighten the load on this tree? I only ask as the rot from the Pfiefferi will probaly cause a weakening of the woody fibres in line with the fork enhancing failure potential of the fork.

 

I see this happen a lot in the old woods, would be a shame to allow it to fall apart in that way, when with a little assitance it may well rock on for a lot longer.

 

IMO of course, sure others will condradict me!