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

[Pete Bannister]

I could get right into house rot looking at pics like that pete!

 

very very cool shots

 

Hama, well its a bonus to find something pretty every now and again! But I'm not sure it entirely repays the utter toil of crawling around the roof voids and subfloors of filthy buildings Much rather be in the woods or up a tree any day..

[Matthew Arnold]

Spotted this very wee little critter. On further digging around to see if the stem went into the ground i noticed that it was attached to a burdock stem cut last year.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Spotted this very wee little critter. On further digging around to see if the stem went into the ground i noticed that it was attached to a burdock stem cut last year.

 

nice one matt, liking your style with the further digging!

[Matthew Arnold]

nice one matt, liking your style with the further digging!

 

I was just intrigued as to why the base had a 90 degree bend at the base.

[Fungus]

1. How is the difference significant?

2. hyphal water transport. However, I’m not convinced that the 'foraging' tendency observed in S. lacrymans is unique to it. I think it is a common habit amongst 'necrotrophic' fungi

 

Pete,

1. Only significant for a mycologist, who wants to identify and document a species with 100 % certainty .

2. I think, it's restricted to saprotrophic (dry) brown rot causing species degrading (processed) wood inside buildings, that have to decompose wood under relatively dry circumstances.

Edited September 22, 2011 by Fungus

[Fungus]

Spotted this very wee little critter. On further digging around to see if the stem went into the ground i noticed that it was attached to a burdock stem cut last year.

 

Matt,

Psathyrella species, could be P. prona s.l.

[Pete Bannister]

Pete,

1. Only significant for a mycologist, who wants to identify and document a species with 100 % certainty .

2. I think, it's restricted to saprotrophic (dry) brown rot causing species degrading (processed) wood inside buildings, that have to decompose wood under relatively dry circumstances.

 

Gerrit

1. Understood, thank you ...

2. In woodland/ forest environments surely you find evidence of similar habits amongst saprotrophic fungi?

[Fungus]

In woodland/ forest environments surely you find evidence of similar habits amongst saprotrophic fungi?

 

Apart from Serpula lacrymans, which is not a "field" species, I suppose it could f.i. be expected from some dry brown rot causing species, such as Laetiporus sulphureus, when the mycelium (mycelial felts) is only present in the heartwood of f.i. Quercus robur without being connected to moisture holding living tissue through the radial rays.

[sloth]

yes it does happen.... wheres the pic! lol:lol:

 

Here we go

[sloth]

Havent had a chance to book browse, so any ideas? On dead oak in army owned woodland, happened to be coronet cut over a path. First coroneting Ive seen my way