Ganoderma resinaceum - growth rate and ecology

[Kveldssanger]

Haha it's cool dude!

[Kveldssanger]

Here it is on a fallen Salix 'Chrysocoma' in Bushy Park. Lovely tree!

[David Humphries]

I've never really found much out there interms of papers/articles on resinaceum.

 

Due to medicinal properties there's much more written about lucidum which I guess has relatively similar ecological attributes.

 

Distinguishing commercially grown Ganoderma lucidum from Ganoderma lingzhi from Europe and East Asia on the basis of morphology, molecular phylogeny, and triterpenic acid profiles

 

 

This old paper which has emphasis on the annual Ganodermas is worth a read.....

 

http://anothersample.net/order/89e898bb61307778e34a963414aad3cdea4a5d82?

 

 

 

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[Adam M]

Just to redeem myself, and please note that I got lost in a private schools grounds while there were girls playing hockey and I was driving around frantically trying to find a way out as soon as I'd got the pics (tree was roadside but I parked in the school).

[David Humphries]

?.................Obviously, this thread isn't limited exclusively to my finds, so by all means if others can tally in with images, rates of growth, peculiar hosts, and so on, then that'd be stellar.

 

 

 

Observations of growth rate over a near 2 month period from back in 2010

 

Host here is Turkey oak (the one that you saw with the developing Volveriella bombycina on at the weekend)

Before it failed, the tree also had colonisation by Fomes fomentarius, Laetiporus sulphureus and one of the perenial species from the Ganoderma complex (likely to be australe)

 

1st image taken 28/07/2010

 

 

2nd taken 02/08/2010

 

 

3rd taken 17/08/2010

 

 

4th taken 24/08/2010

 

 

5th taken 16/09/2010

 

 

Flesh, tubes and pore shots

 

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[Betula]

 

I have seen G. australe on silver maple before - twice.

 

I see it loads on Silver Maple, have some amazing resinaceum on London Plane, need to get photos though

[David Humphries]

Our local host range on the Heath (and around Hampstead in general) are;

 

Hornbeam, Beech, Sorbus, London plane, Ash, Horse chestnut, Malus, Red - Pendunculate - Pin & Turkey Oak

 

we've also seen it on Holm oak and lime further afield.

 

Would be interesting to see who's seen other tree hosts and where in the country those are.

 

British Fungi - record details

 

 

.....good thread Chris

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Thanks for the shares David and Greg. I have a massive series of photos to sort for one particular Gano resi on Quercus robur soon. I followed it from the smallest of primordial oozes up to its current megalithic stature, over the course of a few months.

 

My find on poplar may be interesting, as it's certainly not a frequent association.

 

I clocked it on lime down in Kent last year, though had no camera on me sadly.

[tree79]

Thanks for the shares David and Greg. I have a massive series of photos to sort for one particular Gano resi on Quercus robur soon. I followed it from the smallest of primordial oozes up to its current megalithic stature, over the course of a few months.

 

My find on poplar may be interesting, as it's certainly not a frequent association.

 

I clocked it on lime down in Kent last year, though had no camera on me sadly.

 

 

I found this one today on a turkey oak and when sounded the stem seems to a lot of decay.

[Kveldssanger]

Nice shots. I found some on an oak today, and sounded right above the brackets and it was as sound as could be. Beneath, however, it would have certainly been alright to put a kick pedal by and do some blasts. Such a characteristic of decaying the area beneath where the brackets form is potentially a useful strategy for the fungus, which tends to rot-out the lower butt and root plate region; at least on oak. It gives it some elevation, from where it can then sporulate from more effectively. Just a theory, of course, and would only apply to where the butt is rotting.

 

Some to share from last year, too. Carpinus betulus host to a tier of Ganoderma resinaceum, perhaps 2.5m up the structure. An old pollard, is this hornbeam.