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

[RobArb]

are you positively sure?

 

fomitopsis is rare! And as stated my collegue booted it off (the one that looks like a bracket not the smaller one) and chucked it ito the bushes:thumbdown:

 

ps its on the a580 near walkden towards salford

 

If you do come to mine at some point (like you said:lol:) i can show you, its about 40mins drive from my house

 

thats if it is fomitopsis

[RobArb]

the underside of it, from what i saw, did look like the underside of davids pics in the fung gallery

[RobArb]

T'as all gone quiet?

 

Stunned to awed silence

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

its fomi and your mates going to get my boot for that!

[Fungus]

The pictures were sent to me by a Highway officer, who was mainly interested in the safety of the Quercus rubra this fungus is growing on. So from a VTA point of view, how would you classify this fungus?

 

Tom,

As I wrote before, Omphalotus illudens is a necrotrophic root parasite, which means, that the mycelium at first mainly invades the living tissue of the roots and later on decomposes the wood of the roots as a saprotrophic, which implicates, that eventually both the condition and the stability of the tree are affected because of losing major roots. And when the mycelium starts (panic) fruiting in bundles with big FB's, as is shown in the picture, the risk of windthrow increases.

Zwamgroet,

Edited August 10, 2011 by Fungus

[Fungus]

No idea at present

 

Rob,

Looks like Psathyrella candolleana to me.

[Fungus]

Also these "where" on and near a dead larch today before my colleague (the boot in the pic) booted it off for the fun of it?

 

Rob,

If it smells sourish, guttates from the tubes and the spores are white, this definitely is Fomitopsis pinicola . And the pinkish mushroom is Mycena pura var. pura.

[RobArb]

I'll go smell the developing fruit body when I get a chance, luckily its hidden away on the back of the stem, so shouldn't be seen by joe public, just depends on higher peeps on whether the tree gets removed:thumbdown:

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I'll go smell the developing fruit body when I get a chance, luckily its hidden away on the back of the stem, so shoulfn't be seen by joe public, just depends in higher peeps on whether the tree gets removed:thumbdown:

 

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give me a shout when its developed!

[Tom Joye]

Tom,

As I wrote before, Omphalotus illudens is a necrotrophic root parasite, which means, that the mycelium at first mainly invades the living tissue of the roots and later on decomposes the wood of the roots as a saprotrophic, which implicates, that eventually both the condition and the stability of the tree are affected because of losing major roots. And when the mycelium starts (panic) fruiting in bundles with big FB's, as is shown in the picture, the risk of windthrow increases.

Zwamgroet,

 

Thank you Gerrit, I'll pass on this (very valuable) info...