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

[Dai.]

Hi all.

 

Just looking for bit of help with ID please. Found this on a beech, about 12 foot up on the main stem. No obvious sign of injury where the fungi was but it had a pretty big cavity at the base and a decent amount of kretzschmaria deusta around the base too. 

My fungi skills are pretty limited, but is it oyster fungus? I couldn't find any alternatives with the gills so prominent in my book. Unsure as I found it mid April, but according to said book, oyster fungus autumn/winter fruiting and non persistent? 

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[David Humphries]

58 minutes ago, Dai. said:

Hi all.

 

Just looking for bit of help with ID please. Found this on a beech, about 12 foot up on the main stem. No obvious sign of injury where the fungi was but it had a pretty big cavity at the base and a decent amount of kretzschmaria deusta around the base too. 

My fungi skills are pretty limited, but is it oyster fungus? I couldn't find any alternatives with the gills so prominent in my book. Unsure as I found it mid April, but according to said book, oyster fungus autumn/winter fruiting and non persistent? 

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I suspect these are Pleurotus

[David Humphries]

11 minutes ago, Chessa said:

Would you put this in yer compost?

Look like Velvet Erineum galls caused by tiny eriophyid mites, not seen that before.

Not a fungi though.

[David Humphries]

Some impressive Laetiporus fruiting over the last few days down here in the balmy south.

 

This particular host hasn't had fruit bodies for the last couple of years, guess it probably has a rest year after putting such a large set of sporophores.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mark J]

That looks like Dryads Saddle - Cerioporus squamosus.

[Mark J]

Chicken of the woods

[David Humphries]

Few interesting finds over the last week or so.

 

Dichomitus campestris dead oak branch Hampstead Heath

 

 

Hericium chirratum dead Horse chestnut limb HH

 

 

Ganoderma resinaceum red oak HH

 

 

Radulomyces molaris dead oak branch HH

 

 

Cerioporus (Polyporus) squamosus declining Horse chestnut HH

 

 

Stemonitis fusca dead pine trunk HH

 

 

Fomes fomentarius red oak HH

 

 

Ramaria sp (possibly R. stricta) dead Horse chestnut branch HH

 

 

Amanita fulva with Sweet chestnut Greenwich Park

 

 

[David Humphries]

Fomes fomentarius on pond side poplar

 

 

 

Ganoderma resinaceum on roadside oak developing over a week

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rigidoporus ulmarius on woodland horse chestnut 

 

 

 

 

 

[slack ma girdle]

Some fine veteran oaks near Filton, Bristol, with interesting associated fungi. Nothing out of the ordinary, but the biggest oak bracket fungus i have ever seen.

[sean]

On 05/08/2018 at 12:24, slack ma girdle said:

Some fine veteran oaks near Filton, Bristol, with interesting associated fungi. Nothing out of the ordinary, but the biggest oak bracket fungus i have ever seen.

Hi Mate.... Where about are these please? Im in Bristol and wouldn't mind going to have a look. Are they on the Ancient Tree Inventory do you know? If not I can go and record them.