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

[David Humphries]

dried out old thing though, not up to standards im afraid!

 

we doing the WW foray again this year me old mucka? shall we do one on the heath too?

 

Weekends are probably going to be a no go for me this Autumn.

 

Just sold the house here in the smoke & got an offer accepted on one up in suffolk, so not sure I'll be around for definite.

 

But will try my best to get to at least one foray.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Weekends are probably going to be a no go for me this Autumn.

 

Just sold the house here in the smoke & got an offer accepted on one up in suffolk, so not sure I'll be around for definite.

 

But will try my best to get to at least one foray.

 

 

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good for you mate, things all about to change for you then! stuff that commute, man your a braver man than me! Im pleased for ya though, glad its finaly getting sorted.

 

nice area too, great for the kids:thumbup1:

[RobArb]

all that new exploring to do:thumbup:

[Fungus]

there's plenty mycorrhizas around here, and a lot of them are in graveyards ... rhizomorphs (does that count)

 

Rob,

What species, in what numbers and associated with what trees ?

By the way, I didn't know dead people also had mycorrhizal partners .

And speaking of rhizomorphs, a grave digger once told me, that he while opening a coffin to reallocate the corpse, found rhizomorphs growing from the wooden lid downwards towards the skeleton where they were attached to the chestbone .

Edited May 25, 2011 by Fungus

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Rob,

What species, in what numbers and associated with what trees ?

By the way, I didn't know dead people also had mycorrhizal partners .

And speaking of rhizomorphs, a grave digger once told me, that he while opening a coffin to reallocate the corpse, found rhizomorphs growing from the wooden lid downwards towards the skeleton where they were attached to the chestbone .

 

ha ha, dead people and mycos!

 

grizzly armillaria dude!

[David Humphries]

bits from today including;

 

Fuligo septica on Oak

Laetiporus sulphureus on Oak

Kretzschmaria duesta & Ganoderma lucidum on Hornbeam

 

& what may be Tricholomopsis platyphylla, but not sure.

 

 

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[RobArb]

Rob,

What species, in what numbers and associated with what trees ?

By the way, I didn't know dead people also had mycorrhizal partners .

And speaking of rhizomorphs, a grave digger once told me, that he while opening a coffin to reallocate the corpse, found rhizomorphs growing from the wooden lid downwards towards the skeleton where they were attached to the chestbone .

 

not sure what species they were, 1 type was about a chunky 1-2" high in groups of 3-4 and a light brown colour, shape a bit like fat magic mushrooms without the nipple and growing all over the roots of a 50' ash in a park

 

other was smaller growing solitary (but quite a few numbers dotted about) a light greyish purple, umbrella like shape also growing on said ash roots

 

I did check the were growing of the roots and not just in the park grass:001_rolleyes:

 

didn't have my camera with me to get photos, shall try to find lookylikeys of t'interweb:biggrin:

[Fungus]

not sure what species they were, 1 type was about a chunky 1-2" high in groups of 3-4 and a light brown colour, shape a bit like fat magic mushrooms without the nipple and growing all over the roots of a 50' ash in a park ... other was smaller growing solitary (but quite a few numbers dotted about) a light greyish purple, umbrella like shape also growing on said ash roots ... I did check the were growing of the roots and not just in the park grass ... didn't have my camera with me to get photos, shall try to find lookylikeys of t'interweb

 

Rob,

From this information alone, it is impossible to determine whether the fruitbodies were either of saprotrophic or of parasitic macrofungi, recycling or killing the roots or living of leaf litter. If only roots of Fraxinus were present, ectomycorrhizal macrofungi can be excluded, because ashes are associated with endomycorrhizal microfungi asexually fruiting underground.

The first light brown type may be a Psathyrella species, the second type could be a Mycena, like M. pura, but without photo's it's nothing but a wild guess.

[Fungus]

what may be Tricholomopsis platyphylla, but not sure.

 

David,

The gills are not wide enough apart for Megacollybia platyphylla, this probably is a Melanoleuca.

[David Humphries]

Thanks for your thoughts on the earlier post Gerrit

 

 

 

Couple of polypores from today.

 

P. squamosus growing on the roots of a removed Horse chestnut

 

& what I think is a black foot polypore on Lime = P. leptocephalus (although the stipe base is too far within the tree to be able to pick up on the black foot at the base of the stem)

 

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