Ident please

[David Humphries]

Pretty much all the same stuff, they canbe hard to pin down when dessicated.

 

Pah ! Shame on you Mr Jules

 

 

 

 

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[daltontrees]

Pah ! Shame on you Mr Jules

 

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No-one gets as excited as you do about small rubbery protrusions on trees. It's nice to be able to tell one small rubbery protrusion from another, but these 3 candidates all say the same thing to me in a practical sense. That's what I meant.

 

I'm not forgiven, am I?

[David Humphries]

No-one gets as excited as you do about small rubbery protrusions on trees.............

 

Mmmm , rubbery protrusions on trees !

 

Where to start, such a kaleidoscopic array of colorful species of all manner of shapes and sizes

 

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[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Mmmm , rubbery protrusions on trees !

 

Where to start, such a kaleidoscopic array of colorful species of all manner of shapes and sizes

 

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Now you're just showing off Mr Humphries....amazing photographs though, thank you. :thumbup1:

[David Humphries]

It's nice to be able to tell one small rubbery protrusion from another, but these 3 candidates all say the same thing to me in a practical sense. That's what I meant.

 

I'm not forgiven, am I?

 

The point worth considering I feel, is that although some of these small rubbery protrusions can look very similar at times, they may have subtle but none the less different modus operendi.

 

These two for example, Auricularia auricula-judae - the Jelly ear fungus (here on London plane, 1st two images) & Auricularia mesenterica - the tripe fungus (here on ash, 3rd & 4th images) could be visually confused with each other, but they have different decomposition strategies. The latter is reported as weakly parasitic on fresh wounds as opposed to the jelly ear being wholly saprotrophic on dysfunctional wood volumes.

 

Though perhaps the degrees of dysfunction on these examples can be debated.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Now you're just showing off Mr Humphries....

 

I know

 

 

 

Its an affliction don't you know

 

 

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[Pinkfoot]

The point worth considering I feel, is that although some of these small rubbery protrusions can look very similar at times, they may have subtle but none the less different modus operendi.

 

These two for example, Auricularia auricula-judae - the Jelly ear fungus (here on London plane, 1st two images) & Auricularia mesenterica - the tripe fungus (here on ash, 3rd & 4th images) could be visually confused with each other, but they have different decomposition strategies. The latter is reported as weakly parasitic on fresh wounds as opposed to the jelly ear being wholly saprotrophic on dysfunctional wood volumes.

 

Though perhaps the degrees of dysfunction on these examples can be debated.

 

 

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The third picture reminds me of my wife in some way .:eek:

[David Humphries]

The third picture reminds me of my wife in some way .:eek:

 

Couldn't possibly comment !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[fagus]

David H, thanks for politely pointing out it is now Jelly Ear.

[born2trot]

I was gonna post a ' where's Rupe ' thread again !