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

[daltontrees]

Bit of a poor picture, but Inonotus dryadaeus guttating away quite happily at the base of a knothole last week.

[David Humphries]

Odd time of year for dryadeus to be fruiting Jules?

 

 

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[daltontrees]

Odd time of year for dryadeus to be fruiting Jules?

 

 

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Indeed it is but I am 100% sure about the ID. It was deep inside a dryish near-horizontal knothole about 200mm wide and about 300 deep, at about 2.2m above ground level. On Q. robur, mature, exposed location but knothole on sheltered side. Shropshire.

[David Humphries]

very interesting

 

did you get a chance to cut a slice out of the forb to have a look at the flesh and developing tube layer?

 

 

 

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[daltontrees]

very interesting

 

did you get a chance to cut a slice out of the forb to have a look at the flesh and developing tube layer?

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Not possible. To see it at all I had to grab either side of the knothole and do a pull-up. With my weedy arms, viewing was restricted to about 30 seconds at a time.

[David Humphries]

Is it the gutation and host species that makes you 100% convinced?

 

 

 

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[bikewoo]

A few from this morning.

[daltontrees]

Is it the gutation and host species that makes you 100% convinced?

 

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Oh dear, I think I am about to be told of several guttating fungi species commonly found on Oak...

 

No, this one had the colour and visual texture of I.dryadaeus, with light caramel coloured droplets and darker bigger ones. The pore surface hadn't developed, or was completely buried in fine debris a tthe bottom of the knothole.

 

Here's a close-up.

 

Please please correct me if I am wrong. I can take it!

[David Humphries]

...........Please please correct me if I am wrong. I can take it!

 

I don't think I can correct you Jules even if I was out to.

 

Not enough info for me to help you (with any certainty) move towards a definitive agreement on Id.

 

It just doesn't look right to me.

 

There are a few species that gutate that are associated with oak that I know of, Aurantoporus fissilis (below) for one, I've also seen Ganoderma sp with droplets on the edge. Although neither of those are your specimen obviously, it suggests that the presence of droplets shouldn't be a sure fire sign of any one particular species.

 

 

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[Mark J]

What's this?

 

 

Thanks.