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

[David Humphries]

yep, make you right on that one old fella:thumbup1:under beech by chance?

 

Hornbeam

 

 

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[sloth]

Fungal 'lumps' (very technical, I know!) found on a declining english oak in september a few years ago. They where quite soft, and had a slight pinkish colour which doesnt show very well, and a kind of 'bloom' on the surface you could mark with your nail. Any ideas? I thought at the time sterile Fistulina...

edit: found at base, with decay evident

[sloth]

Found last September in predominantly oak woodland.

Also Taphrinia brooms on birch in north Wales.

Edited July 4, 2012 by sloth

[David Humphries]

Fungal 'lumps' (very technical, I know!) found on a declining english oak in september a few years ago. They where quite soft, and had a slight pinkish colour which doesnt show very well, and a kind of 'bloom' on the surface you could mark with your nail. Any ideas? I thought at the time sterile Fistulina...

edit: found at base, with decay evident

 

 

 

I would imagine that your specimen is indeed Fistulina

 

Pretty variable in shape & yours may still have developed into a bracket form.

 

Still awaiting my first of the year.

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[David Humphries]

Found last September in predominantly oak woodland.

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Coprinus sp, perhap C. impatiens

 

 

 

 

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[sloth]

It didn't seem quite right for a forming Fistulina, a bit too soft, I think it must have been though. Could a hard frost have stopped it 'dead' at that stage perhaps?

[David Humphries]

It didn't seem quite right for a forming Fistulina, a bit too soft, I think it must have been though. Could a hard frost have stopped it 'dead' at that stage perhaps?

 

The shot of the slice above could amost be squeezed flat.

They can be very soft & spongy.

 

Did you ever see it/go back to it, after you photographed it ?

 

 

 

 

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[sloth]

No I didn't, I'll have to go back in the next few months and see what I see

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Fungal 'lumps' (very technical, I know!) found on a declining english oak in september a few years ago. They where quite soft, and had a slight pinkish colour which doesnt show very well, and a kind of 'bloom' on the surface you could mark with your nail. Any ideas? I thought at the time sterile Fistulina...

edit: found at base, with decay evident

 

david is right sloth, its a fisti one that failed.

[David Humphries]

Pluerotus, Inonotus & Armillaria

 

 

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