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

[Kveldssanger]

Nice ones there, David! That on the Heath?

 

Just come back from holiday in Suffolk, and paid a visit to Dunwich Forest. Amongst all the bloody planted pine are actually some proper trees, including oak, birch, and beech. I'll make my own thread on other bits and bobs, though came across a beautiful example of Kretzschmaria deusta on beech (Fagus sylvatica). I've always associated it with the butt and lowest portions of the stem (butt-stem interface, really), though this Kretz was rising to at least 2.5m up. As we can see below, the sporophores were all present within a very large stem wound - an old forestry wound, grazing wound, or tear-out? There are red deer around, for example.

 

Images below start at bottom and work up. Didn't get the very top of the wound as the missus was calling me away as she saw four red deer, and then I saw more Kretz and other cool bits.

[Kveldssanger]

David, would you say this is an example of I. hispidus on Fagus sylvatica?

 

Never seen it on this species before, hence the question.

[David Humphries]

I couldn't say for sure Chris.

 

It's certainly a possibility as I have seen I. hispidus on beech, and I believe it's also reported on other beeches on frdbi.

 

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[David Humphries]

Although you shouldn't rule out I. cuticularis, as this is the more common association on beech with Inonotus.

(below images) particularly where there is wound wood/cavities

 

I tend to find that the more clustered and smaller the sets of brackets are, the more likely it will be I. cuticularis.

 

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[Kveldssanger]

The cluster on the stem certainly looks like cuticularis, actually. More 'droopy'. I first thought it was chicken before finding the sporophores on the ground, so think perhaps you're on the mark with cuticularis. As can be seen, these were clustered around a wound site, of which many were still on the stem. Tube layer also looks similar, albeit more blackened in my case. Going back to Dunwich this summer as there's a cracking pub nearby that does awesome food (will go there after for some good cider and food ), so will check this beech as it's right by the road.

[David Humphries]

Scutellinia scutellata, the eyelash fungi.

 

Not one I stumble across too often, due in part to not living in teeny tiny minuscule fungi imp world.

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Very nice! Dinky little things. Nice morphology, too - looks spined?

 

An addition from me, too (from today). I think this is Ganoderma resinaceum on Salix sp. I couldn't get access through the wire fence into the tip site (could only get my hand through the chains and zoom in), though from what I could see it looks like a load of lacquered brackets. Evidently a white rot, as seen by the willow stem's exposed wood.

[David Humphries]

Looks a good shout for resinaceum Chris

 

 

Here's what I imagine is a desiccated Polyporus durus (the bay polypore) on a willow log from earlier today.

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Nice! Looks a bit like Daedaleopsis confragosa, in terms of its 'blushed' upper surface. Is the polypore one you come across every so often, on willow? I ask, as I'd have put that down as blushing bracket by sheer virtue of the blushed upper surface in part.

[David Humphries]

Nice! Looks a bit like Daedaleopsis confragosa, in terms of its 'blushed' upper surface. Is the polypore one you come across every so often, on willow? I ask, as I'd have put that down as blushing bracket by sheer virtue of the blushed upper surface in part.

 

 

This one is a stalked mushroom as opposed to a bracket like confragosa.

It fruits regularly on a few sites on the heath, usually where it's fairly wet.

 

Can see where your at with the blushing.

 

Here's what the bay polypore looks like when it first fruits......

 

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