Went out to spot fungi today...

[Kveldssanger]

Spotted some more G. resinaceum on the way home from work.

 

 

Basal sprouting perhaps signifies significant decay?

[Kveldssanger]

Can anyone ID this? On an ash stump:

 

[Paul Melarange]

Spotted some more G. resinaceum on the way home from work.

 

 

Basal sprouting perhaps signifies significant decay?

 

Nice pics 👍

[Kveldssanger]

Cheers!

 

Apparently it's rare in England as a fungal species and it shouldn't be removed unless for scientific purposes.

[Paul Melarange]

Cheers!

 

Apparently it's rare in England as a fungal species and it shouldn't be removed unless for scientific purposes.

 

That sounds about right. There was a nice G.resinaceum fruit body forming on a the buttress of an ancient oak up the road from me. Unfortunately it appears someone, or something, has knocked it off 😏

[Kveldssanger]

Ugh...

 

I do detest fungi foragers, too. Yes you may be able to eat some of them, but that doesn't give you the right to purge an area of fungal diversity!

[David Humphries]

Can anyone ID this? On an ash stump:

 

 

That level of dessication has me ........stumped

 

 

Cheers!

 

Apparently it's rare in England as a fungal species and it shouldn't be removed unless for scientific purposes.

 

Not sure where your reference for this statement is from Chris but I would say that G.resinaceum isn't that rare at all in England (particularly the south) I have at least 30 trees at work with the association and come across it regularly on oaks, ash, plane, hornbeam and horse chestnut from all over the southeast.

 

Although the UK records doesn't list it as abundant, it may get misidentified with G. lucidum and G. carnosum which are both fairly similar looking species.

 

British Fungi - record details

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[Kveldssanger]

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.

 

Nice pun. I'll have to go through my fungi book by Roger Phillips and see if I can find that one on the ash stump.

[David Humphries]

The fungi on trees field guide mentions that it's "not well recorded" but for context 5 of the 6 shots of the brackets on the resi pages (p27) were taken from trees all within a kilometer of each other at work.

 

 

Common as muck, so it is

 

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[Chopsdaly]

Found these yesterday