bracket id help pls

[willog]

Hello. As promised some more close up shots of flesh and pore layer. Been looking at photos and reading about fuscoporia, looks very similar. Thanks for the input, must admit id not heard of it.

[Kveldssanger]

Nice shots there. Hopefully David can confirm if it indeed is.

 

Out of curiosity, where exactly is this tree? Might use it as an excuse to drive down to the New Forest for a day soon, if it's down that way...

[willog]

Thanks. Tree is in the sir harold hillier gardens, right at the end of the peony beds, ask at the front desk for directions.

[Kveldssanger]

Sweet. Thanks. Will bear that in mind when down that way, seeing family.

[Kveldssanger]

Having spoken to someone who is pretty darn good with fungi, they think it may be F. wahlbergii, which is a red data species and thus very rare. Only ten records in the UK, I am told. I'll give the place a call tomorrow and see if they can arrange for some spores to be sent off to check, and a small cutting, to both this expert and probably also Kew.

[Kveldssanger]

Taking a half day at work to drive down tomorrow, to look at this fungus and also the garden as a whole.

[willog]

Chris, sorry I missed you on friday, I was gone by one oclock. Just heard you did go to the gardens though and got a sample of the brackets. You'll have to let us know the results if possible. Strange coincidence that the hampshire fungi group were in doing a foraging weekend, you may have seen them. Apparently they suggested Phylloporia ribis and again, looking at some online photos its a definite possibility. Its such a mine field sometimes!

[Kveldssanger]

Shame, but cannot be helped. I spoke with Stuart, ran into a man from Guilford looking for Amelanchiers a few times, and also a colleague of yours (was she Canadian?). Having shown the photos to Andy (London fungus group), and after Stuart (Hampshire fungus group) spoke with Andy as well, P. ribis is probably a very good shout.

 

On a side note, I spotted Ganoderma on one of the pines (a group of which this one was in was very recently part-felled, perhaps the day before or even that day). Were they Scots pine, or another species? Looked a lot like G. australe (and was a very tough upper surface on the one I pressed), though only G. applanatum is known to colonise pine, so I understand. Perhaps worth getting Stuart to look at the spores under a microscope?

 

I will be down in the New Forest on 30th October on a foray with Andy Overall - perhaps see you there? His sit is called Fungitobewith - New Forest Foray Sunday October 30th - 2016 - Fungi To Be With

[willog]

Thanks, thats helpful, any ideas of the potential significance to the tree if it is P. Ribis. I'm not too worried because of the trees size and location but always interested what we may expect.The lady you met, Carla, was american rather than Canadian.

The group of pines were P. Radiata and all dismantled in the last two weeks, except the one with Ganoderma which came out after storm damage......3 years ago, I think? A real shame but they were planted as a shelter belt and their time had come. The monoliths will have climbers planted around now to display on and hopefully stand for many years yet.

[Kveldssanger]

Ah, P. radiata! I had assumed they were an extension of the Scots nearby, but I should have looked at cones on the floor instead (didn't think to look!).

 

Nice idea with climbers on the monoliths. A future feature, no doubt.