What's this - on Fagus Sylvatica

[TerryTibbs]

Any ideas, i have two but amongst the wise men i don't want to share!

 

 

 

 

 

Any help would be massively appreciated, the tree is approx 25m + tight location, roadside, suppressed roots from building work and driveway, though not recent.

 

Chris

[David Humphries]

Can't see the shots on my Pc (must be something to do with photo bucket)

 

Had a look on the phone & I would think they are Pholiota squarrosa

 

 

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[treecreeper arb]

The first picture shows the fb with recurrent gills,which P.squamossa doesnt have..but there does look like remnants of squamules here and there.IMO dessicated fbs are tricky sometimes.what do you think mr Tibbs?..

[TerryTibbs]

My two guesses were degraded remnants of A. Mellea (long shot) or P.Squarrosa.

There were no rhizomorphs, though this isn't definitive and they are quite defined.

 

Sadly this is a fantastic tree, great benefit to the area, two doors up from a great Beech i took down that had Ganoderma. I'll put pictures from that up in todays job thread.

 

Thanks,

 

Chris

[treecreeper arb]

my initial thought was A.mellea,but i would always go with mr.Humphries if there was money on it...hopefully whatever the id is,it wo'nt neccesarily mean a negative outcome.

[daltontrees]

The gills are fully decurrent, (running right down the stipule or stem and petering out there) in the first picture. That pretty much rules out Pholiota and Armillaria mellea. Pleurotus comes to mind.

 

The gill attachment can't be seen in the rest of the pictures. Can't really tell anything except that they have gills, not pores, and some of the stems appear scaly.

 

There could be 2 species present.

 

Did you conclude that the fruiting bodies were physically attached to the tree?

[TerryTibbs]

 

 

These images any more help?

 

Chris

[TerryTibbs]

The gills are fully decurrent, (running right down the stipule or stem and petering out there) in the first picture. That pretty much rules out Pholiota and Armillaria mellea. Pleurotus comes to mind.

 

The gill attachment can't be seen in the rest of the pictures. Can't really tell anything except that they have gills, not pores, and some of the stems appear scaly.

 

There could be 2 species present.

 

Did you conclude that the fruiting bodies were physically attached to the tree?

 

The fruiting bodies were definitely attached to the tree; re: other fruiting bodies present with Pleurotus being a secondary, i couldn't tell, the tree is covered with ivy!

 

Chris

[daltontrees]

Those pics are more convincingly Pholiota squarrosa. Their attachment to the tree is additional evidence. HAve a look at the Fungi Directory for general prognosis.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

the first fungi is a tough one, very degraded, but possibly paxillus involutus, a generalist mycorrhizea on young trees and saprotroph in decline of older trees.

 

the others are most cretainly P. squarosus