Collybia fusipes - Observations

[sloth]

Looks like a great opportunity to investigate. Would you agree with the simultaneous white rot?

 

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[Paul Cleaver]

interesting

[David Humphries]

I believe it is Kevin.

 

Both the failed oak and the standing oak we excavated today had decay in the bark, cork, phloem and cambium that presented as an orange/tan degraded volume with large holes which appeared filled with white mycelium. This would seem to be typical of simultaneous type rot.

 

The decay appeared not to be in the core of the roots.

 

If we get a chance we'll slice a root to show the decayed cross sections.

 

 

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[sloth]

That'd be great, any others in line for the investigative treatment or post failure disection?

 

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[treeseer]

I'll be washing me boots after the next trip to the UK; that one isn't recorded across the Atlantic.

 

Striking documentation of a sinister saprotter.

[David Humphries]

I'll be washing me boots after the next trip to the UK; that one isn't recorded across the Atlantic.

 

Striking documentation of a sinister saprotter.

 

Very common here Guy, the Fungal Record Data Base of Britain and Ireland has close to 3000 records of it where it its Genus is named Gymnupus and not Collybia.

Surprised to hear/read that you don't have it Stateside.

 

 

The books that I referenced at the beginning only have it recorded on Quercus and Castanea, but I've found it on the above and Carpinus & Fagus also.

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

This might mid-identification, but I recorded this on what looks like ash, October 2012

[David Humphries]

Difficult to say for sure without seeing the stipe?

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Here's an oak from 2007 that I was installing a bat box on.

 

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[David Humphries]

Here's an oak from 2007 that I was installing a bat box on.

 

It failed during a storm in May 2010

 

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