Never seen this one before...

[Tom Joye]

I've found this fungus in the woods yesterday, at the stem base of an old scotch pine. I've never seen anything like this before, I don't even know if it's parasitic, saprophitic or mycorrhizal.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot,

Tom

[David Humphries]

Phaeolus schweinitzii Tom.

 

The Fb is annual.

 

Starts decay in the roots, but brown rot can develope up into the heartwood of the trunk.

 

 

 

Really nice example & shots.

 

Good find.

 

 

 

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[Tom Joye]

Thanks a million, Monkeyd.

I never would have found out that one by myself, it actually looks much prettier than in the guides

[John Hancock]

I’ve never seen this one in ‘real life’ – that was a lucky find! We did a picus on a pine at Westonbirt which was supposed to be host to this little fella. Pretty FUBAR’d from what I remember. Good find!

[David Humphries]

Just nipped out to get a shot of this little fella popping out of the trunk of a very old Pine.

 

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Edited September 18, 2009 by Monkey-D

[ScottF]

Some really good shots there, guys.

 

I wonder what joe public thought of you lot rolling about in the undergrowth with your flashes going.

[David Humphries]

Some really good shots there, guys.

 

I wonder what joe public thought of you lot rolling about in the undergrowth with your flashes going.

 

 

 

I can asure you that no brambles were hurt in the filming of this fungi !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I have a couple of nice scars for my efforts

 

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[Tom Joye]

Some really good shots there, guys.

 

I wonder what joe public thought of you lot rolling about in the undergrowth with your flashes going.

 

If even my girlfriend thinks I'm crazy, I don't wanna know what joe public thinks

[Giles Hill]

I've not seen this in real life either and had imagined it to be something you'd find mostly in pine woodland, but David's one looks like an isolated pine in the middle of a deciduous wood? Are there many other potential hosts in the vicinity? Or did that spore just get lucky?

[andrew]

I’ve never seen this one in ‘real life’ – that was a lucky find! We did a picus on a pine at Westonbirt which was supposed to be host to this little fella. Pretty FUBAR’d from what I remember. Good find!

 

Took these at w'birt in autumn 2004 - wonder if it was the same tree?

mature pine nearish to the entrance to the old arboretum if i remember right!

sorry, can't find any with more of the tree to give context: