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

[johnanderton]

Thanks for replys , wondered is the purpleing due to the fungi taking things from the yew ? Have seen c of the woods on willow and oak but they did look more like the txt book types n this one is kinda differant

[Fungus]

wondered is the purpleing due to the fungi taking things from the yew ? Have seen c of the woods on willow and oak but they did look more like the txt book types n this one is kinda differant

 

John,

This fruiting from dead wood is incomplete in (partially) forming (sterile) "lumps" instead of (fertile) brackets and is possibly infected with the mycelium of Hypomyces rosellus causing the purplish colour change.

[David Humphries]

Thanks for replys , wondered is the purpleing due to the fungi taking things from the yew ? Have seen c of the woods on willow and oak but they did look more like the txt book types n this one is kinda differant

 

 

 

This chicken fruits on this yew every couple of years or so, and is always pure sulphur in colour until it desicates.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

This chicken fruits on this yew every couple of years or so, and is always pure sulphur in colour until it desicates.

 

This completely fertile (?) "Chicken" fruits on a living yew and because of that may not that easily become infected with the mycelium of Hypomyces rosellus.

[Fungus]

Here's a photo of Daedalea quercina on a dead stump of oak infected with the mycelium of Hypomyces rosellus causing a pinkish to purplish staining of the bracket surface.

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Edited June 11, 2011 by Fungus

[David Humphries]

Here's a photo of Daedalea quercina infected with the mycelium of Hypomyces rosellus causing a pinkish to purplish staining of the bracket surface without producing ascomycete fruitbodies.

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Great shot.

 

So are the Hypomyces molds Gerrit ?

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

So are the Hypomyces molds ?

 

No, they all are ascomycetes capable of producing ascospores in (in this case pinkish red) pyramid-shaped perithecia embedded in a (pink) stroma, like is shown in the photo of H. rosellus on desicated caps of Polyporus ciliatus.

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Edited June 11, 2011 by Fungus

[David Humphries]

No, they are ascomycetes capable of producing ascospores in pinkish red pyramid-shaped perithecia embedded in a pink stroma, like is shown in the photo of H. rosellus on desicated fruitbodies of Polyporus ciliatus.

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thanks, very interesting

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Few bits from a stroll this arvo.

Nowt too special, but a showing of what's currently active......

 

 

Coprinus atramentarius

Pluerotus pulmonarius

Auricularia auricula-judae

Delaminated Piptoporus betulinus

Fuligo septica

Daedalea quercina

Coprinus domesticus

Rigidoporus ulmarius gutation

 

 

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[Fungus]

1. Fuligo septica

2.Coprinus domesticus

 

1. Not Fuligo septica, but the still active plasmodium stage of another myxomycete, which has not yet formed aethalia.

2. Not one of the with an ozonium associated Coprinus species, such as C. domesticus, C. radians or C. xanthotrix, because they all are much paler (beige, ivory, cream, pale ochraceous brown) in colour and do not (often) fruit in clusters of more then two to five mushrooms (see : Coprinus domesticus; C. radians, so this probably is C. micaceus s.l., which has lost its "mica" after rainfall.