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

[sloth]

Stemonitus, like slacks above maybe?

And Ganoderma, lucidum? On the very rotten roots of a fallen hornbeam...

[David Humphries]

  sloth said:

Stemonitus, like slacks above maybe?

 

 

Reckon so.

 

 

 

Nice lucidum Kev

 

 

 

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Edited May 25, 2017 by David Humphries

[sloth]

Do you reckon it is a lucidum then? I've never found one before, and haven't got home to my books yet...

[David Humphries]

  sloth said:

Do you reckon it is a lucidum then? I've never found one before, and haven't got home to my books yet...

 

Host coupled with pronounced stalk would suggest lucidum over resinaceum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[sloth]

Excellent, didn't seem quite like the typical resi I often see on oaks. I don't often walk through hornbeam woods, there don't seem to be many near me in north Essex, but going towards London they become more frequent. It was only a little woodland (Duck Wood, the Manor , Romford) but plenty of deadwood and interesting bits and pieces - I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Edited May 25, 2017 by sloth

[Darrin Turnbull]

On a Black Locust. Not sure what it is.

[David Humphries]

  Darrin Turnbull said:

On a Black Locust. Not sure what it is.

 

 

 

Just looks like one of the more common Ganoderma species to me Darrin.

 

Perhaps G. australe.

 

Did you take a wedge too look at the flesh and tube layer?

 

 

 

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[Darrin Turnbull]

Thank you David , i'll do that tomorrow.

[David Humphries]

The variable grey spotted amanita, (Amanita exelsa var. spissa) here on the roots of beech in Epping forest

 

 

 

 

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Edited June 5, 2017 by David Humphries
Correction

[sloth]

Nice, the Amanitas are a very handsome bunch. Here, odd for this time of year, is an oyster just spotted in my garden.

I chopped up the stems from a wild oyster I found fruiting last autumn /winter (around Oct/Nov) and poked a little into 10mm holes drilled into a couple of fresh logs (cherry plum, if memory serves me well). I thought I'd be lucky if it worked at all, and certainly didn't expect to see anything happening yet!