found on silver birch today

[Nick Harrison]

any ideas? Been thru all my books but can't seem to find it

[David Humphries]

Looks a bit like the ozonium of a Coprinus species

 

 

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[daltontrees]

Looks a bit like the ozonium of a Coprinus species

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The what?

[David Humphries]

It's a bright orange hairy carpet which I believe is the air mycelium of certain species of Coprinus

 

 

Haven't got any shots at hand, and not saying that what Nick has discovered

(without the permission of his boss to go fung hunting btw ) is definitely that, but it looks like it.

 

 

 

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[Nick Harrison]

It's a bright orange hairy carpet which I believe is the air mycelium of certain species of Coprinus

 

 

 

 

 

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if this is what you suspect would it have been likely that coprinus fb's were nearby or do they appear at separate times?

[daltontrees]

It's a new one on me, thanks for explaining.

[daltontrees]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=onzonium&client=firefox-a&hs=dtZ&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=VcPmUs-AC8mt7QamhIDICw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=640#facrc=_&imgrc=KPaxEt0krZPoUM%253A%3BI0YSXH7byAmGyM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.wildaboutbritain.co.uk%252Fpictures%252Fdata%252F8%252Fmedium%252FOzonium_-_Coprinus_sp.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.wildaboutbritain.co.uk%252Fpictures%252Fshowphoto.php%252Fphoto%252F106328%3B880%3B710

[David Humphries]

if this is what you suspect would it have been likely that coprinus fb's were nearby or do they appear at separate times?

 

Ozonium can be present for long periods without fruiting occurring from my experience.

 

Here's one of both the fruit body and ozonium on the beech monolith on West Heath road

 

 

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[David Humphries]

and again on a dead log of........well I can't actually remember, but no fruiting present.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I personaly dont think this is ozonium, but I like throwing spanners! lol

 

It appears to be growing on some form of exudate, and a dark exudate at that, the kind of exudate I would associate with I.obliquos.

 

I dont have a suggestion yet, but divine inspiration will strike at some point, I hope because its a weird one for sure.

 

Never seen red tinged ozonium.