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

[Fungus]

so the bulbs are white but without a pore structure when forming and only later turn to brown lumps? thats usefull to know if a case where a tree has failed as "body language" then.

 

And with Ganoderma while still white, colour reddish to pale brown when scratched or bruised, as can be seen in the second close up of the sterile lump.

[David Humphries]

Flesh shot

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Ganoderma from today, on a pretty desicated Hornbeam stump along with a fair crust of Kretzschmaria.

 

For all intents & purposes, the form, host, site history etc.... lend itself toward G. lucidum.

 

Though something is nagging me.

 

Is it perhaps G. applanatum just a little confused as to it's own identity ???

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ganoderma from today, on a pretty desicated Hornbeam stump along with a fair crust of Kretzschmaria.

 

For all intents & purposes, the form, host, site history etc.... lend itself toward G. lucidum.

 

Though something is nagging me.

 

Is it perhaps G. applanatum just a little confused as to it's own identity ???

 

 

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bog standard australe if you ask me?

[Fungus]

bog standard australe if you ask me?

 

[David Humphries]

bog standard australe if you ask me?

 

 

Very perculier form, from my experience.

 

What about the stalk & elavation ?

 

 

 

australe on a dead desicated stump, not sure about that either.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Very perculier form, from my experience.

 

What about the stalk & elavation ?

 

 

 

australe on a dead desicated stump, not sure about that either.

 

Stalk is due to fruiting position needing to elevate itself for gravitational spore release and very dark felty old fruit body unlike applanatum which stays much more like its brown smoother self in age till all thats left is a husk/shell.

 

probably had the most profound effect on the tree hence the death and fell with Kretschmaria taking all it can after the event:thumbup1:

[Fungus]

1. Stalk is due to fruiting position needing to elevate itself for gravitational spore release and very dark felty old fruit body unlike applanatum which stays much more like its brown smoother self in age till all thats left is a husk/shell.

2. probably had the most profound effect on the tree hence the death and fell with Kretschmaria taking all it can after the event

 

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[David Humphries]

So how can you both (although possibly quite correct) be so sure with out the caveat of the need for microscopic confirmation ?

 

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Stink Horn and a good clump of em too.