Confirmation please

[Kemosabe]

Can anyone confirm my identification please, this sorry looking specimen was hosted on an oak. It's a poor example it was being crushed by a tyre that some upstanding member of the community launched over a hedge.

 

I'm thinking Collybia fusipes can anyone confirm. From reading the texts there seems to be differing opinion on the effects of this fungi can anyone clarify this for me please.

 

Many thanks

[David Humphries]

Yes this is the spindle shank - C. fusipes

 

I believe this species is prodominantly saprophytic in nature but may have the ability to be weakly parasitic and attack root wood as a secondary agent in stressed trees.

 

A few interesting leads in this older thread......

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/80314-collybia-fusipes-observations.html

 

 

 

 

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[Kemosabe]

Many thanks David appreciate the confirmation. I will have a look at the thread.