The Top ten Fungi

[Dean Lofthouse]

Can we compile a list of the top ten Tree associated fungi.

 

Some of these fungi keep turning up time after time.

 

It would be a good starter for me to be able to learn and memorise the ten most common and move on from there.

 

Just got my Jordans book and was flabergasted at how many fungi there are

 

I have got Ganoderma resinaceum firmly imprinted now because of the little tip that resin oozes when cut.

 

Give me 10 to start with

[David oakman]

Dean try Fistulina hepitica:001_smile:

[Mozza]

Ill be taking a back seat with this thread haha but reading with interest, Good idea though Dean, Ill be keeping an eye on this!

[Dean Lofthouse]

Dean try Fistulina hepitica:001_smile:

 

Beefsteak fungus

 

Beefsteak oozes a red juice when cut it is similar to Inonotus Hispidus which has an hairy upper surface

Edited August 14, 2009 by Dean Lofthouse

[David oakman]

I dont like to give two but the fungi that ilook forward to every year is Grifola frondosa a real buzz when i find them:001_smile:

[David Humphries]

You got two, here's a few more for ya.....

 

 

Laetiporus sulphureus

Kreztmaria duesta

Ganoderma applanatum

Ganoderma australe/adspersum

Armilaria mellea

Rigidoporus ulmarius

Fomes fomentarius

Collybia fusipes

Meripilus giganteus

 

Ooops, that's nine

 

 

Good stuff Dean

 

Try and get to grips with the difference between fruiting bodies with gills and the ones with pores, I find this helps enormously.

 

Also get a handle on the spore spitters Ascomycota and the spore droppers Basidiomycota

 

Happy fungi hunting

 

 

 

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[Dean Lofthouse]

Printed them off, I'll sit and study them tomorrow

[Marc]

Inonotus hispidus

Inonotus dryadus

Ganoderma spp.

Ustilina deusta

Meripulus

Armilaria (honey fungus)

Laetiporus

Piptoporus betulina

Polyporus squamosa

Phellinus

 

No particular order, the spellings are probably wrong, but these are some of the most common fungi i encounter.

[Mesterh]

Daldinia Concentrica

[Marc]

I've just seen davids list, he has Kreztmaria duesta, i believe that is the same as Ustilina duesta.

I come across this one a lot it can be a nasty one.