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

[David Humphries]

Inonotus hispidus fruiting on a dropped branch.

 

Don't remember coming across that before.

 

 

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oh and Hispidus i have seen edophytic in whip too? only place ive seen it though?

 

mmm interesting.

 

 

Typical, mention that a Fung done gone and baffle me one day, then a couple a days later it dont go do it again

 

This one at HH, and in duetic performance with G. applanatum on these ash Logs, which have been on the ground for a fair while.

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I am begining to wonder if fungi are more prone to an endophytic and or saprophytic lifestyle than has been previously hypothesised (spelling!)

 

Ive seen armilaria, completley hollow out a stump, and lay then dormant, till suddenly one day it raveges the host as though it had been waiting, sleeping about its host waiting for its life to wain, just enough.

 

Is it that most fungi are just reapers? that they are the garbage disposal networks of the eco systems of the arboreal systems?

 

If the host is willing to fight, if it has the resources, does it not more often than not completley overcome and adapt to mechanical change via the decomposition of its now redundant parts?

 

I have shown a very large happy and vibrant beech riddled with meripilus and Ganoderma pfiefferi, ive seen oaks laugh off Inonotus dryadeus.

 

Its time to rethink our anthro perception of the stratagies of fungi.

[David Humphries]

I guess tree failure rates of Trees with known decay Fungi versus self retension of similar conditioned Trees is not particularly auditable.

 

Not sure any one is actually doing that work specifically.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Back to the pretty things..........

 

 

Fistulina on Oak, noted whilst peeking at the OPM pheromone trap above it.

 

& a Laetiporous again on Oak, noted just driving on past.

 

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[Bundle 2]

I am begining to wonder if fungi are more prone to an endophytic and or saprophytic lifestyle than has been previously hypothesised (spelling!)

 

Ive seen armilaria, completley hollow out a stump, and lay then dormant, till suddenly one day it raveges the host as though it had been waiting, sleeping about its host waiting for its life to wain, just enough.

 

Is it that most fungi are just reapers? that they are the garbage disposal networks of the eco systems of the arboreal systems?

 

If the host is willing to fight, if it has the resources, does it not more often than not completley overcome and adapt to mechanical change via the decomposition of its now redundant parts?

 

I have shown a very large happy and vibrant beech riddled with meripilus and Ganoderma pfiefferi, ive seen oaks laugh off Inonotus dryadeus.

 

Its time to rethink our anthro perception of the stratagies of fungi.

 

 

I think this is what I took from the Lynn Body presentation a while back. Ill get this wrong now if I try and recall her remark but she seemed to show a wry expression of resignation in this regard.

Classic is the relative bad press the Armillaria gets. In the woodland setting, a benign recycler, rarely needing to compete. In the manicured garden where "hygiene" is rife, it seems it is quite capable of entering it's prey and demise can be swiftly dealt!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think this is what I took from the Lynn Body presentation a while back. Ill get this wrong now if I try and recall her remark but she seemed to show a wry expression of resignation in this regard.

Classic is the relative bad press the Armillaria gets. In the woodland setting, a benign recycler, rarely needing to compete. In the manicured garden where "hygiene" is rife, it seems it is quite capable of entering it's prey and demise can be swiftly dealt!

 

Which presentation was that Tim?

 

did I miss out on a myco fest!

[sean freeman]

Earliella scabrosa (syn Trametes scabrosa/Daedalea emodensis) on Ficus microcarpa var hilli logs Old Botanic Gardens Brisbane.

 

The increasing use of logs retained within the garden beds in the gardens is very very pleasing to see.

[David Humphries]

Which presentation was that Tim?

 

did I miss out on a myco fest!

 

 

 

Lynne Body held a lecture at UCL Birbeck last October.

 

Can't believe you were not there

 

Tim & I went to it.

 

Was quite good.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Earliella scabrosa (syn Trametes scabrosa/Daedalea emodensis) on Ficus microcarpa var hilli logs Old Botanic Gardens Brisbane.

 

The increasing use of logs retained within the garden beds in the gardens is very very pleasing to see.

 

 

Nice Fung sean.

 

we're noting a healthy increase in Fungi on both logs & SDT's at our site at Hampstead, which is just three miles from the very centre of London.

 

A few interesting bits & pieces now being found, not to mention the additional invert environment.

 

Long over due replenishment of this type of natural habitat.

 

 

 

 

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[sean freeman]

Thanks david, your years of work on Hampstead are an inspiration mate.

 

If and when you meet Cassian I'm sure he will provide you with his take on the task we face here....no red lists (nor anything equivalent!) no national legislation at all that even recognises the critical importance of cryptogams (algae, lichens, mosses, liverworts and fungi). Very very little recognition at state level (Victoria has one fungi on its endangered list!!!!!)

 

As a continent we have only formally described 5% of the estimated total number of fungi species named to species level!!!!!!

 

This is despite the Eucalypt systems in southern Australia being considered a global diversity hotspot for hypogeneous fungi.

 

There is a real concern that by the time wee begin to understand what there is here it will be too late.

 

The mentality here tends to be that the continent is soooo large that there is plenty of habitat refuge elsewhere....the simplistic banality of this position seems to escape the majority of those who want increased intensive urban development. The continent is very very large but sadly (for biodiversity and the environmental future of many many organisms) the specific ecological communities that are so critical are restricted to the very same narrow strip of land between the ranges and the coast that we are so attracted to....funny that eh???

 

Rant over.