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

[David Humphries]

Came across these today on an old stump, anyone got any ideas what they are?

 

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Any idea what the stump was?

 

 

 

 

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[Matthew Corran]

Probably Beech, but will have to check.

[David Humphries]

Good to meet you and your team the other day by the way.

 

Like wise Warren

 

Are you thinking of attending conference this year?

 

 

 

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[Warren Stirling]

 

Are you thinking of attending conference this year?

 

 

 

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Yes, I'm thinking of a couple of days to make the drive worth it, not sure which yet. Yourself ?

[David Humphries]

Yourself ?

 

 

Just booked on for Sunday evening and Monday.

 

Can't really do the whole stretch sadly

 

 

 

 

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[daltontrees]

true, it takes a fair amount of wood to produce a fruit body, Lynne Boddy says that fruit bodies contain high amounts of Nitrogen (pers comm) and gerrit stated a fruitbody is about 20% of the weight of the wood consumed, though exactly what he said I couldnt quote. I would like to analyse the details scientifically as there is no specific work I can as yet identify to elaborate.

 

Take mycorrhizea, they say that it requires around 80,000,000 mycorrhizal nodes or root tips to have enough energy to form a fruit body, so gives some indication of just how much mass/energy is required to be converted to solid fruitbody.

 

The fact we are having this conversation at all is for me joyous, mycology was a silent subject talked of in dusty rooms not so many years ago:001_cool:

 

OK I understnd it takes a lot of energy to fruit and that that energy comes from degradation of wood but the gap in my understandingis something fundamental, what actually causes fruiting? It is easy to relate it to things like the fungus reaching air or knowing it's food source is nearly gone, but fungi don't think and I expect have only rudimentary sensory mechanisms to signal that air has been reached. How chemically/electrically/hormonally is it triggered? I have not yet read anywhere an answer to this. It should answer the question at hand as to whether removal of fruiting bodies stimulates re-fruiting. I shall investigate, don't hold your breath though, it's on a long to-do list.

[David Humphries]

Interesting day fungi-wise

 

A new site for us for Podoscypha multizonata

Ganoderma lucidum on hornbeam

Agaricus augustus within mixed conferous/broadleaf woodland

Ganoderma resinaceum on red oak

 

 

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[JonnyVine]

willow not having any heartwood as such nore defining boundary of phenolic substances.

 

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Please could you be a little bit more specific on this as I don't quite understand, or maybe I'm just reading it wrongly.

[Matthew Arnold]

Please could you be a little bit more specific on this as I don't quite understand, or maybe I'm just reading it wrongly.

 

Basically, willow is a soft (hard) wood anyway and is prone to tears/limb failures. Add a saprophtyic or parasitic fungi at a weak point in a willow and it can't defend itself quickly enough due to the openness of the rays. So the fungus goes crazy and goes on a gorging run before the tree can react thus causing failures at an accelerated rate in comparison to Oak or Ash for example.

[mad matty]

Basically, willow is a soft (hard) wood anyway and is prone to tears/limb failures. Add a saprophtyic or parasitic fungi at a weak point in a willow and it can't defend itself quickly enough due to the openness of the rays. So the fungus goes crazy and goes on a gorging run before the tree can react thus causing failures at an accelerated rate in comparison to Oak or Ash for example.

 

very well explained Matt....or should i say pilot:lol: