What izzit? More fungi ident' help needed.

[janey]

The first three piccies are of what I think may be Ustlina (no new fangled names here!) on an Ulmus lobellii. I have never - knowingly - come across this in the field before and I have only ever seen it from photos. The black, crumbly mass that I found doesn't really match anything I have seen before, so Ustilina is my best guess. Enlightenment, please? And no, definately ISN'T dog poo .

 

And the fourth piccy? Haven't the foggiest . It's on a hybrid black poplar and wasn't there last week!

[Bundle 2]

"......black, crumbly mass............"

Sorry, you've lost me. I dont see anything that would go by your description there.....

It certainly doesnt look much like Kretzschmaria deusta to me, either the forms you see ( mature/immature)

The problem as I see, it is nicely illustrated in the last image. Its been a wee bit warm...oh, you noticed? Well, the fruit bodies dont do well in these conditions.....!

[David Humphries]

Not great photies Jane, need to get on your knees and get a bit of macro action goin on.

 

Not sure with the last, Pholiota perhaps

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/5853-ustulina-nasty-little-blighter.html

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[janey]

Not great photies Jane, need to get on your knees and get a bit of macro action goin on.

 

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Hands and knees? In a tree pit?? In London??? I think swine 'flu would be the least of my worries if I started doing that .

 

No, they are not great pics, but such are the joys of camera 'phones. And some of us don't have proper jobs and don't have time to dawdle . LoL.

 

I attacked the brackets - for want of a better word - with a combi and they black all the way through and friable. That's still not a lot of help, is it?

[David Humphries]

Hands and knees? In a tree pit?? In London??? I think swine 'flu would be the least of my worries if I started doing that .

 

No, they are not great pics, but such are the joys of camera 'phones. And some of us don't have proper jobs and don't have time to dawdle . LoL.

 

I attacked the brackets - for want of a better word - with a combi and they black all the way through and friable. That's still not a lot of help, is it?

 

Fair point on the knee issue, at least Ealing streets aren't Hampstead Heath

 

 

Even when the mature (black) stage of Ust is quite desicated, you can (when delicate of touch) break it apart, and usually see the spore chambers as in picture 4 of my Ust thread above.

 

 

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[Giles Hill]

I think the the first three may be the remains of a larger 'proper' bracket fungus.

 

Something has also killed off the epicormic growth above the fungus - perhaps a combination of intense sunlight and dry conditions have scorched both of them?