Odd place for fungus

[daltontrees]

We got a call to look at fungi on a client's tree, turned out to be Polyporus squamosus. Then client said it was growing on his trailer too, parked nearby. We had a look, I think it is Pleurotus. Client made the trailer himself from GRP and aluminium and he swears there is no wood in it. So what are these doing here? The trailer is in regualr use out on the road. The fungus is getting pretty good spore dispersal, I reckon. Anyone got any other oddly located air-eating fungi pics to rival this for inexplicability?

[Stubby]

We got a call to look at fungi on a client's tree, turned out to be Polyporus squamosus. Then client said it was growing on his trailer too, parked nearby. We had a look, I think it is Pleurotus. Client made the trailer himself from GRP and aluminium and he swears there is no wood in it. So what are these doing here? The trailer is in regualr use out on the road. The fungus is getting pretty good spore dispersal, I reckon. Anyone got any other oddly located air-eating fungi pics to rival this for inexplicability?

 

Thats spooky ! Where is it getting its nourishment ??

[David Humphries]

Would of thought there is a band of detritus running along a gunnel where the fungs mycelium is fruiting from.

 

 

Bizarre location for sure.

 

 

 

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[Stubby]

Would of thought there is a band of detritus running along a gunnel where the fungs mycelium is fruiting from.

 

 

Bizarre location for sure.

 

 

 

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I new you would be on it David !

[David Humphries]

Any closer shots of the gills and cap surface Jules?

 

 

 

 

 

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[daltontrees]

It was just too high, and I only had the mobile phone camera. I am waiting for a Conservation Area notice to expire (6 weeks) before I go back there to take down the P. squamosus victim, if the brackets are still there I will get a better shot. Alas not likely to last that long. Fungi, that is, not me.

[daltontrees]

Another odd place for fungus, or it seemed odd when I saw it 2 days ago (2nd January). It was on a lump of wood on a windswept beach, 10 metres from the water's edge, soaked with seaspray, draped with seaweed and caked with sand. And still seemed to be struggling on.

[David Humphries]

Interesting, but not as strange as it would seem.

 

A few species are particularly known for fruiting during the winter months.

Flammulina being the most renowned.

 

The coastal marine (ecotone) belt has its own specific species, but often coastal woodland has species (particularly mycorrhizal) that will associate on roots of pines and beech etc.... that have their roots out in the sand dunes and shingle.

 

Noted Macrolepiota, Amanita, Russula and others, whilst walking the Norfolk coast last autumn.

 

 

No idea which species your shots are on the drift wood.

 

 

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[daltontrees]

Interesting, but not as strange as it would seem.

 

A few species are particularly known for fruiting during the winter months.

Flammulina being the most renowned.

 

The coastal marine (ecotone) belt has its own specific species, but often coastal woodland has species (particularly mycorrhizal) that will associate on roots of pines and beech etc.... that have their roots out in the sand dunes and shingle.

 

Noted Macrolepiota, Amanita, Russula and others, whilst walking the Norfolk coast last autumn.

 

 

No idea which species your shots are on the drift wood.

 

 

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I should have looked a bit closer but doing so would have necessitated breaking the cluster open, they looked like they were having a hard enough time as it was. Besides, it was intermittently lashing with rain and gusting about 50mph. I was keen to get my new Nikon out of the salty air asap.

 

That 'driftwood' was a whole trunk about 5m long and 60cm diameter, hollow at the base and I am guessing a K. deusta failure. The fungi were therefore on a part of the tree that would have been at about 5m up. But now growing horizontally on the 'driftwood' in its new position lodged in (no, on!) a sand dune. The force that must have carried it there is unthinkable. If its hitchhikers survived the ride they could survive anything.

[detritus21]

That trunk on the beach will have come down a river in flood then been washed up during a high rough tide like we've been having. It shows how resilient fungi is though