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

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Will be far to busy with me head in books to even notice the fairer sex.

I think the good wife will have little to worry about.

 

 

.

 

Yeah I forgot your an old man now!

 

Just playing with ya, settled in yet?

[David Humphries]

Just playing with ya, settled in yet?

 

Back in to work for the first day tomorrow, will let you know then

 

 

 

.

[David Humphries]

Interesting combo I hadn't come across before (not that I can remember anyway)

 

Birch & Ganoderma resinaceum.

 

Not noted in Ryvarden & Gilbertson

& only 2 listings in the FDRBI species list

 

Gerrit ?

 

.

[Fungus]

Interesting combo I hadn't come across before (not that I can remember anyway) Birch & Ganoderma resinaceum. Not noted in Ryvarden & Gilbertson & only 2 listings in the FDRBI species list

 

David,

If it's not a non- or short stalked G. lucidum (see Ganoderma lucidum), it would be a first for me too, but to be sure you'll have to check the spore size.

[David Humphries]

David,

If it's not a non- or short stalked G. lucidum (see Ganoderma lucidum), it would be a first for me too, but to be sure you'll have to check the spore size.

 

Ofcourse your point is well intended & educational.

But without access to scopes, but with many, many hours of research, reading & photographing in the field I feel a little gut instinct can go a fair way to a probable Id

 

Id be interested to know if you have documented G. lucidum on trunks off the ground ?

 

.

[Fungus]

Id be interested to know if you have documented G. lucidum on trunks off the ground ?

 

Good point , no never.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

what fascinates me most is the interaction with the birch, all that decay and yet still there is life, Birch against resi I would not asume of such a fair and hard battle scarred scenario

[Fungus]

your point is well intended & educational.

 

David,

Of course it is , but tell me, how do you British keep your mycoflora databases clean of faulty identifications, if no microscopical evidence and storage of well documented and described collections in qualified herbaria is demanded ?

In The Netherlands, before the "standard list" of Dutch macrofungi was published in 1995 and the first Red List in 1996, we had a review of all official herbarium collections, after which a lot of the collections from the national herbarium had to be removed because of faulty identification, which could not be restored because of insufficient documentation.

Nowadays, findings of all very rare to extremely rare and/or Red List species have to be identified by specialists, if the identification of the species is a "tough case", or to be checked by a specialist if a second opinion is asked for, to be accepted for the mycological data base.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

David,

Of course it is , but tell me, how do you British keep your mycoflora databases clean of faulty identifications, if no microscopical evidence and storage of well documented and described collections in qualified herbaria is demanded ?

In The Netherlands, before the "standard list" of Dutch macrofungi was published in 1995 and the first Red List in 1996, we had a review of all official herbarium collections, after which a lot of the collections from the national herbarium had to be removed because of faulty identification, which could not be restored because of insufficient documentation.

Nowadays, findings of all very rare to extremely rare and/or Red List species have to be identified by specialists, if the identification of the species is a "tough case", or to be checked by a specialist if a second opinion is asked for, to be accepted for the mycological data base.

 

 

Sounds about right to me:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I could have put this in me own thread but well thought i would share it with my long lost mate monkey!

 

another new species for me, and WW:thumbup1: waited so long for this one:biggrin:

 

Plums-and-Custard Fungus (Tricholomopsis rutilans)