Pholiota squarrosa

[treecreeper arb]

Evening all..

Does anyone know what the colonisation strategy of the aformentioned fungus(the old shaggy scalycap) is?..sapwood exposed?Heartwood?..

[David Humphries]

Lynne Boddy has its mode of establishment down as 'latently present' in the roots

 

 

 

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[treecreeper arb]

Many thanks for the response Mr.Humphries.

Latent,sapwood intact it is then.

[Dean O]

Ive got it down as a heart rotter causing white rot but now Im confused - is latent/ sapwood intact correct?

[David Humphries]

Got it down from where Dean?

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

decay "pattern/implications" not much different to meripilus or Honey IME, though maybe slower and less invasive.

[Dean O]

only in my mind David,

I think I had read somewhere about its latency and got carried away imagining it munching away from the inside out.

[Dean O]

is P populnea a heart rotter? what is its incidence in the uk.

[David Humphries]

is P populnea a heart rotter? what is its incidence in the uk.

 

Fungal record database has it named as Hemipholiota populena and red data listed.

 

Only 54 UK records listed.

 

Not one that I have knowingly come across

 

 

British Fungi - record details

 

 

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[David Humphries]

only in my mind David,

I think I had read somewhere about its latency and got carried away imagining it munching away from the inside out.

 

Had a sniff around this earlier today and remembered that I had listed it down as a wound parasite (sapwood exposed) on an assignment I did a couple of years ago. Which would of been based on reference material and I think this corresponds with what is listed in the Francis Schwarze/Engels/Mattheck Fungal Strategies

 

So perhaps there is conflicting information out there.

 

 

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