Went out to spot fungi today...

[David Humphries]

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Nice finds !

 

As its your thread Chris, do you want to Id them?

 

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

I'm going to go for (they're all, I believe, from the order Agaricales, so that narrows it down):

 

Bottom left: Amanita muscaria. Resident of pinewoods (pine and birch too).

 

Top right: Suillus sp. (or Boletus sp.) - as it's pretty massive and looking at the pores I'm going to go for the latter genus.

 

Top left: Laccaria amethystina , given the colouration. Looks a little faded, however.

[Paul Melarange]

I swear I read it in the AA fungi booklet. Definitely a 'proper' publication. I was going to suggest that perhaps it wasn't that rare given I have see it three times now, though that could have just been dumb luck. Perhaps not, it seems.

 

I wonder whether, when you perused 'Fungi on trees', you had also looked at the page about G.lucidum and then looked at the page on G.resinaceum? G.lucidum is definitely rare.

 

This has to be one of my favourite arbtalk threads. Thanks for starting it Chris 👍

[David Humphries]

I'm going to go for (they're all, I believe, from the order Agaricales, so that narrows it down):

 

Bottom left: Amanita muscaria. Resident of pinewoods (pine and birch too).

 

Top right: Suillus sp. (or Boletus sp.) - as it's pretty massive and looking at the pores I'm going to go for the latter genus.

 

Top left: Laccaria amethystina , given the colouration. Looks a little faded, however.

 

You're good with the Fly agaric and Amethyst deceiver and think that without seeing the flesh (and reaction) and top of cap, that the other is probably one of the Boletes.

 

I'd take a punt at B. edulis

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Glad you like the thread, Paul. It's always great to learn - as I come across fungi I'll post them here. My mother said she spotted what sounds like P. squamosus on a dead oak, so I'm going out Saturday to get some photos (I guess it's good family members are being my eyes where I am not able to be, for fungi!). Great time to use my bird-watchers binoculars too, as it's high up in the crown. Will get some snaps of that.

[Kveldssanger]

You're good with the Fly agaric and Amethyst deceiver and think that without seeing the flesh (and reaction) and top of cap, that the other is probably one of the Boletes.

 

I'd take a punt at B. edulis

 

 

 

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Fly agaric is unmistakeable. Beautiful thing. Amethyst deceiver is rather distinct too, given its colouration. Not so refined on my boletes and such, though I'll be out trawling woodlands and some more rural areas around south east Essex soon looking for anything that isn't common earthball.

[Kveldssanger]

Got a ton of snaps today. Wonderful day topped off by the best chicken of the woods I have ever seen. Absolute cracker. Hope you all share my absurd levels of enthusiasm on these ones!

 

The birth of F. hepatica inside an old oak in a car park of all places (had been watching the tree for a good month expecting something, and here is the reward) - shows a good 4th wall in the CODIT model:

 

Some cracking fresh F. hepatica with the fallen bracket from last year below, guarded by a bunch of furious ants that I might have accidentally stamped on clearing a few nettles!:

 

The best example of L. sulphureus I have ever come across on an oak log (someone give this thing a medal):

 

A follow-up of my first G. resinaceum snaps 10 days later:

 

Many D. quercina (some desiccated) on a similar oak log near to the L. sulphureus:

 

A partially-uprooted A. pseudoplatanus that has developed into a sabre tree with a little harping too:

Edited August 14, 2015 by Kveldssanger

[David Humphries]

Some great images Chris

 

That Laetiporus is a very fine and interesting example.

 

The second set is an old resinaceum bracket not Fistulina.

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Some great images Chris

 

That Laetiporus is a very fine and interesting example.

 

The second set is an old resinaceum bracket not Fistulina.

 

 

 

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Thanks for the correction!

 

Indeed that chicken of the woods is very intriguing. Never seen such a bulky one before.

[Kveldssanger]

Had a walk today and found these:

 

A fine example of I. hispidus on ash:

 

A tiny F. hepatica on oak, rather oddly positioned on the stem from a tiny wound:

 

Some desiccated F. hepatica, I believe:

 

A slightly larger L. sulphureus on an oak just close by:

 

And some fine standing oak deadwood - plenty of larval galleries, ants, etc:

 

David - would you consider the reason behind the L. sulphureus I shared yesterday being so large and 'textbook' be due to the host being dead, and thus the fungus can readily allocate resources to fruiting without having to worry about any sort of combat with other fungi (given host-specialism in heart rots) / the tree's active life processes?