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David Humphries

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Ask someone who knows :001_rolleyes:

 

 

 

 

and if your post count continues to increase on a fungi photo thread........without posting any fungi photos, you will be summarily impregnated with cordycep spore which will turn you into a zombiefied tree officer that crawls up the nearest dead tree before a sporophore erupts from your cortex and sporulates fung dust everywhere :001_tt2:

 

 

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Hahaha someone has been reading Stamets! Considering fungi may perhaps infect the brain more readily than we previously thought, maybe there's going to be some mass migration to the tops of dead whitebeams!?

 

So my additions are, so I don't pull the aforementioned stunt:

 

FIRST IMAGE: Suspected wolf's milk (Lycogala epidendrum) on a hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) stump, complete with honey fungus (Armillaria sp.) rhizomorphs.

 

SECOND IMAGE: The remnants of what appears to be a very old Ganoderma resinaceum on a very lovely mature oak tree (Quercus robur).

 

THIRD IMAGE: The stumpgrinder (Pseduotrametes gibbosa) chilling amongst the remnants of spent turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) sporophores, on the top surface of a hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) stump.

 

FOURTH IMAGE: A cheeky Salix-borne Daedaleopsis confragosa gets rekt with sound wavez from an ARBOTOM (not shouting, honest!!!!!!!!).

 

FIFTH IMAGE: Ganoderma austrannatum on cherry (Prunus sp.), complete with ARBOTOM sensors blasting sound through the butt to check for sound wood.

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Applanatum/schmaplanatum :sneaky2:

 

Text books confuse and contradict the issue of determining appla/australe via morphological/macro features.

 

My advice (for what it's worth) is to not go down the guessing route with these two.

 

Spore + microscope the only sure fire way to tell between the two.

 

 

 

 

 

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Surely you've had a guess before David.Can you differentiate on site with a microscope or is it a lab test?

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Surely you've had a guess before David.Can you differentiate on site with a microscope or is it a lab test?

 

That's the point Jake

 

I've had what I would describe as an educated 'guess' in the past and been proven wrong via microscope by mycologists at the Jodrell laboratory at Kew and by my tame local mycologist.

 

 

Guessing is part of the journey but it really needs to go further to keep on learning about this 'stuff'

 

 

 

 

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Hahaha someone has been reading Stamets!.

 

Consider your self pardoned

 

 

I don't own a copy of Stamets, he evaded me when he visited the Heath a few years ago, which I've not forgiven him for yet.

 

 

But for the record, he'd never heard of me or new that I even existed, so he should probably be pardoned n'all :biggrin:

 

 

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Probably Laetiporus, I would say (either going to be that or Fistulina).

 

Isn't there a way to distinguish between the 2? With Chicken there are apparent while mycelial sheets between the cubes but not so with Fistulina?

Or did I make that up at some point? :001_smile:

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Consider your self pardoned

 

 

I don't own a copy of Stamets, he evaded me when he visited the Heath a few years ago, which I've not forgiven him for yet.

 

 

But for the record, he'd never heard of me or new that I even existed, so he should probably be pardoned n'all :biggrin:

 

 

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Plenty of pardoning for one post, there! :laugh1:

 

 

Isn't there a way to distinguish between the 2? With Chicken there are apparent while mycelial sheets between the cubes but not so with Fistulina?

Or did I make that up at some point? :001_smile:

 

Don't think you're going mad, as I think I have read the same.

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Isn't there a way to distinguish between the 2? With Chicken there are apparent while mycelial sheets between the cubes but not so with Fistulina?

Or did I make that up at some point? :001_smile:

 

That's interesting Sean. In any case it looked as though the consultant who carried out the inspection had a good poke round and mash up a lot of the inside so no mycelial sheets (that I noticed). There was an apparent large bees nest within the cavity last year aswel, was a great habitat tree.

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