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

[Treecreeper1961]

lol. not entirely sure wether you refer to the brown rot or the oak wound, or even what the post meant in its full!

 

have I seen this phenomina before? more times than madonna and angelina have adopted!

 

You show off.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You show off.

 

ha ha, if you got it flaunt it they say!

[fergusonforestry]

found these today, scarlet elf cup

[Treecreeper1961]

found these today, scarlet elf cup

Aren't they gorgeous!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

found these today, scarlet elf cup

 

very well done, they are gorgeous arent they, one of my absolute favourites:thumbup1:

 

:001_wub:sarcocypha:thumbup1: coccinea

[Fungus]

Sarcocypha:thumbup1: coccinea ...

 

... or Sarcoscypha austriaca or S. jurana.

[RobRainford]

Are the scarlet elfcups hallucinogenic? I saw it somewhere that they were?

[Treecreeper1961]

I don't know Rob but the colour suggests it.

 

Whether it is down to me being more aware now, or coincidence perhaps, I seem to be seeing fungi everywhere(not quite but in a lot of places.)And no, I haven't been sampling any red fungi.

 

Here are a few I have come across today, three in total:

 

Pictures 1,2,3 and 4 on a dead Scots Pine, I am not sure at all but going for Heterobasidion annosum. Apologies for the dissection of a poor innocent fungi, don't know what came over me.

 

5 and 6 also on the same tree and again not sure but guessing at Phaeolus schweinitzii.

 

7 and 8 on an Alder and just to be consistent, I'm not sure but will have a guess at Inonotus cuticularis.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

go on son! crikey, top lad! inonotus radiatus though not cuticularis which is more beech specific but likes acer too

[Treecreeper1961]

go on son! crikey, top lad! inonotus radiatus though not cuticularis which is more beech specific but likes acer too

 

What gives that then? The host sp. or the fungi features?