Fungi ID please.

[Jonesie]

Hi All

 

I've got a friend of mine that has this Fungi can anyone help ID what it is for me.

 

[Graham]

Looks like Fistulina on an oak.

[Peter]

Do you know what the host species is?

 

(Thinking oak)

[David Humphries]

I would agree with Fistulina

 

 

 

 

 

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[APC]

At the risk of sounding completely thick, surely that's Inonotus dryadeus? Even looking through Google images, I can't find a pic of Fistulina looking like that?

[David Humphries]

At the risk of sounding completely thick, surely that's Inonotus dryadeus? Even looking through Google images, I can't find a pic of Fistulina looking like that?

 

I think that's a fair challenge, not a stupid assumption at all.

 

Agreed the image is not particularly clear to focus on the finer elements of identification. But its not too bad.

Especially as Justin's not what you'd particularly call a fung nut

 

The colouration is more on the redder side than what I would expect to see from a forming dryadeus. Certainly from what I can see in the image.

 

I think some of us had a similar discussion on Fistulina recently on another thread (can't remember which one though)

The early stages of Fistulina can vary greatly in form.

 

Fistulina also can gutate like in the image provided above.

 

 

Would be great if every image that came up here for help with identification had better close ups and more focus on the pores and the flesh qnd tubes from inside the fruit bodies.

 

But not every one has or can make the time to go the extra mile.

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[APC]

I think that's a fair challenge, not a stupid assumption at all.

 

Agreed the image is not particularly clear to focus on the finer elements of identification. But its not too bad.

Especially as Justin's not what you'd particularly call a fung nut

 

The colouration is more on the redder side than what I would expect to see from a forming dryadeus. Certainly from what I can see in the image.

 

I think some of us had a similar discussion on Fistulina recently on another thread (can't remember which one though)

The early stages of Fistulina can vary greatly in form.

 

Fistulina also can gutate like in the image provided above.

 

 

Would be great if every image that came up here for help with identification had better close ups and more focus on the pores and the flesh from inside the fruit bodies.

 

But not every one has or can make the time to go the extra mile.

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I'm sure 'in the flesh' it would be much more straightforward

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

first off, defo Fistulina, theres a juvenile (full sexual form) in the next root sinus, and this large ones a bit funny looking, it appears to be forming as in the anamorphic form F. hepatica 'Confistulina' which resembles a brain like structure on maturation.

[Jonesie]

It's on an Oak, and apparently it looks like a brain with blood oozing out.