Inonotus radiatus (?) on Alnus glutinosa

[Kveldssanger]

Evening,

 

Saw this yesterday evening, on a substantially-dead alder (A. glutinosa). Around pruning wounds and other wounds were these brackets, which could potentially be very old Inonotus radiatus brackets.

 

Slime mold at the bottom, too.

 

Link:

[David Humphries]

Looks good for it.

 

I spent a long time just finding desiccated tiers of I. radiatus brackets before I spotted some freshly developed ones.

 

Alders Carrs are generally a good site for it.

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Score! Slowly building up a photo-base of fungi pictures, so can make a folder for this one as well. I'll pay a visit to the tree in a few months, though I doubt it'll yield anything. Not enough alder around these parts to really provide for the fungus to a great enough extent to struggle to miss it. Must have to go along some river banks where mature alder reside, or carrs, as you say. I was on holiday in Wenhaston last week and there were so many mature alders on the land over the river from where I was staying, but I couldn't get across. Gutted.

[David Humphries]

Chris, here's a couple of the Alder Carr woodlands that I was referring to whilst at Wimpole.

 

Both good sites to see I. radiatus from my experience.

 

Not on your doorstep but both could be seen in a day from a trip out from your neck of the woods.

 

One in Suffolk and one in Cambridgeshire.

 

http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/events/2015/07/11/walk-fordham-woods

 

http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=&ID=157

 

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[Kveldssanger]

One for next summer, certainly - probably a touch too late in the season now, for fresh ones. Thanks.

[David Humphries]

FRDBI has it now listed as Mensularia radiata

 

Most of the latter records are from specimens found from Autumn through to Winter.

 

British Fungi - record details

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Well there goes my next two minutes by changing my directory for my photos of Inonotus radiatus! Such a damned hipster...

 

Would you say mid November is too late? Cannot get there before then, sadly. Hatfield this weekend and New Forest next.

[Kveldssanger]

It might even be Xanthoporia radiata? Xanthoporia = yellow pores. Easy enough.

 

Species Fungorum - Species synonymy