Be this Ganoderma lucidum?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

It's very dry. I'll place it in a container with some air holes. Thanks, again.

 

 

👍🏻 thanks for the info David

[Kveldssanger]

Ganoderma lucidum confirmed. Just as well I sent it - thanks, David!

 

Will keep a tabs on the tree next year and see if it fruits again.

[David Humphries]

Cool, always good to get a confirmation to help build up the ident knowledge.

 

You heard back pretty swift !

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Indeed. Sent it first class last Wednesday, and heard back from Martyn earlier today. They're interested in DNA sequencing if another bracket forms. Very cool stuff!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Indeed. Sent it first class last Wednesday, and heard back from Martyn earlier today. They're interested in DNA sequencing if another bracket forms. Very cool stuff!

 

 

Did they expand any on the DNA sequencing? Like what they might be expecting to find - different years fruiting body but from single host for example?? Intriguing stuff!!

 

Was there a fee??

[jomoco]

I had a huge 56" DBH coastal live oak that had a G. Lucidum infection both inside and outside its hollow base. It was a double trunked tree, splitting apart, but in a remote location with no targets about. The tree was on the grounds of a local Indian casino with enough money to spend on a little R&D, so I talked them into letting me try an unusual fungal mitigation project on it.

 

I tied the splitting tree together with bull ropes temporarily, then using tarps, created a radial tent around the tree's lower base, reaching about six feet up and 360 degrees around it. Then ran outdoor drop cords from a nearby maintenance shed to the tent. Placing grow lights both inside the hollow trunk and outside in a radial configuration. My intent was to starve the fungal infection of darkness, blasting it with artificial light throughout each evening using timers until daylight.

 

Sure enough, after about three weeks of this rather bizarre light treatment, all the fruiting bodies dried up and dropped off the tree, both inside and out. Unfortunately the splitting tree broke my temporary bull lines and hit the ground, bringing my bizarre R&D fungal mitigation project to an early end.

 

A year or so later, I spoke with a mycologist at a seminar about the project. His opinion was that while it may have been effective above ground and inside the hollow tree where the light reached the fruiting bodies? It would have had no effect below ground where the vast shoestring network of the fungi was located.

 

He did however think using the same light treatment to burn out fusarium infections in the heads of Phoenix canariensis date palms might work.

 

Jomoco

[Kveldssanger]

Did they expand any on the DNA sequencing? Like what they might be expecting to find - different years fruiting body but from single host for example?? Intriguing stuff!!

 

Was there a fee??

 

Free!

 

They didn't expand, though I shall ask. There's little scientific info on the species in this country (phenology), it seems.

[Kveldssanger]

I had a huge 56" DBH coastal live oak that had a G. Lucidum infection both inside and outside its hollow base. It was a double trunked tree, splitting apart, but in a remote location with no targets about. The tree was on the grounds of a local Indian casino with enough money to spend on a little R&D, so I talked them into letting me try an unusual fungal mitigation project on it.

 

I tied the splitting tree together with bull ropes temporarily, then using tarps, created a radial tent around the tree's lower base, reaching about six feet up and 360 degrees around it. Then ran outdoor drop cords from a nearby maintenance shed to the tent. Placing grow lights both inside the hollow trunk and outside in a radial configuration. My intent was to starve the fungal infection of darkness, blasting it with artificial light throughout each evening using timers until daylight.

 

Sure enough, after about three weeks of this rather bizarre light treatment, all the fruiting bodies dried up and dropped off the tree, both inside and out. Unfortunately the splitting tree broke my temporary bull lines and hit the ground, bringing my bizarre R&D fungal mitigation project to an early end.

 

A year or so later, I spoke with a mycologist at a seminar about the project. His opinion was that while it may have been effective above ground and inside the hollow tree where the light reached the fruiting bodies? It would have had no effect below ground where the vast shoestring network of the fungi was located.

 

He did however think using the same light treatment to burn out fusarium infections in the heads of Phoenix canariensis date palms might work.

 

Jomoco

 

Neat story, that - very creative! The mycologist was right, though you did blitz the brackets hah!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I had a huge 56" DBH coastal live oak that had a G. Lucidum infection both inside and outside its hollow base. It was a double trunked tree, splitting apart, but in a remote location with no targets about. The tree was on the grounds of a local Indian casino with enough money to spend on a little R&D, so I talked them into letting me try an unusual fungal mitigation project on it.

 

I tied the splitting tree together with bull ropes temporarily, then using tarps, created a radial tent around the tree's lower base, reaching about six feet up and 360 degrees around it. Then ran outdoor drop cords from a nearby maintenance shed to the tent. Placing grow lights both inside the hollow trunk and outside in a radial configuration. My intent was to starve the fungal infection of darkness, blasting it with artificial light throughout each evening using timers until daylight.

 

Sure enough, after about three weeks of this rather bizarre light treatment, all the fruiting bodies dried up and dropped off the tree, both inside and out. Unfortunately the splitting tree broke my temporary bull lines and hit the ground, bringing my bizarre R&D fungal mitigation project to an early end.

 

A year or so later, I spoke with a mycologist at a seminar about the project. His opinion was that while it may have been effective above ground and inside the hollow tree where the light reached the fruiting bodies? It would have had no effect below ground where the vast shoestring network of the fungi was located.

 

He did however think using the same light treatment to burn out fusarium infections in the heads of Phoenix canariensis date palms might work.

 

Jomoco

 

as ive said before on hearing of this experiment, 3 weeks and the bodies NATURALLY decay, They have rhizomorphs for protection and snorkeling. light will do sweet fudge!

[jomoco]

3 weeks and they decay naturally eh?

 

The things I learn from the mycology pros never ceases to amaze me!

 

I gather this species of ganoderma must be some new mutation capable of growing bigger and bigger over the course of a year then?

 

That's why rank amateurs like me read these threads with such relish I suppose!

 

To discover new ganoderma mutations capable of growing for years!

 

What shall I name it Tony, G. Holdonicus?