Tony Croft aka hamadryad

The second image is gilled! not pored? or do my eyes need testing?

yep! good observation.

easy! flamulina velutipes!

The first one is almost certainly Pholiota aurivella, second P. ostreatus as monkey say! they go orange as they dry and dessicate as also do the gills become shrivelled and less obvious.

I gave up on women, at least on keeping one on full time! cant find a geeky one that gets me!

i will go through my images and do a full series of the tree and felling, might take some finding though so bare with me! Its all about the wieght above the decay, the residual wall thickness and the type of decay i.e soft/simaltanious/ white or brown rot. Soft rot will leave the tree stiff but not strong, white and simaltaneous rot enables the tree to sense extra stress and form VTA symptoms. matthecks TR ratios are for a full crowned unpruned tree you get that though dont you? pruning reduces the impact of decay considerably.

:congrats:Wow! awsome little thread, and absolutely top drw finding that info!

Nice shots, Ganoderma australe fruiting like crazy, good example, and Ganoderma applanatum living saprotrophic on ash by the looks

Monkey, bang on with the bay polypore, P. badius, not that fussy iether, loves a bit of sycamore, and is more common in our recent warmer weather, though lately not so much! brrrrr! nice aminita muscaria with the velum scales washed off too. no idea about the tiny one though, these are out of my league for now!

Quality image!

The ganoderma is australe, the decay being the dead giveaway, see my thread the ganoderma thread for similar image. The rot being white and aggresive penetration of barrier formations. the little dead fungi are most likley something saprotrophic, look at the ridges in the caps on dessication? unlike dried Armillaria sp Oh i love this place!

also called the maitake mushroom, which translated means "the dancing mushroom" so called becuase on finding it a shroom fiend wood dance around in excitement! Anti carcanegenic properties I seem to remeber, "grifolan" being the compound

The problem i have with this being a Coprinus is the gills, it simply has to be one though, the most likely candidate is C.impatiens.

interesting little thread, always wondered about them card machines.

I dont know how many folk are aware of this information, but reading some threads it seems not so many? So i thought i would stick this all in here to act as reference for those looking for info on the Perreniporia fraxinea fungus:001_smile: perreniporia fraxinea.pdf An old group of brackets, at least five years old. Young developing fruit body on fagus, core samples and decay details to follow in time.

Thanks for that, it is interesting how differing local circumstances can change the "habit" of certain organisms. I know a stand of not so old douglas firs in the southeast of england that are being chewed up by Sparasis crispa! And know full well of the dessimation heterobassidion annosum can do in the pressence of forest root grafts and stump fodder avaliability. This area of research is something i aspire to, im waiting for a chance to buy some scopes from brunel and a D5 camera to go with them. I am like a kid in a candy store when it comes to fungi!

Lmao, quality shot of your lad thier monkey!

The other three Ganodermas relevant to us in the U.K G. lucidum (Oaks predominantly) G. resinaceum (oaks predominantly) G. Pfiefferi (Fagus predominantly)

The perennial fruit bodies of G. applanatum have often been confused with those of G. adspersum, but the following characteristics can help to differentiate these species. If the lower surface of the fruit body bears the galls from larvea/emerging fly Agathomyia wankowici, the fungus can be identified as G. applanatum, as it is the only European species of Ganoderma affected (BREITENBACH and KRÄNZLIN, 1986). (though currently there is some discussion on this points validity) I will update! however these examples (below) are clearly g applanatum. In this image droplets can be seen oozing from ovipositing wounds by the fly, galls will then develope.

G. Adspersum/australe G. applanatum on fagus sylvatica (burnham beeches) G. Australe on Horse chestnut note agressive penetration of barrier zoning (dark lines in decayed region) G. australe G. applanatum, Saprotrophic on lightning strike wound of Fagus sylvatica

Thats the mutts proverbials! I want one tooo!

I know i am going to get stick for this one but due to several requests i thought i would deal with it in a thread of its own. The most important thing is to get a good look at this document http://www.enspec.com/articles/ENSPEC%20Research%20Paper%20-%20Ganoderma%20on%20Trees.pdf ganodermas can be tricky little blighters to ID, but it doesnt take long to "get your eye in" and start working out ways to have the "best guess" at what they might most likely be. Without microscopic observation it is always going to be less than 100% acurate, certainly with regards to the two most difficult to distinguish from one another, Australe/applanatum which for the unkowing were adspersum and lipsiense respectivley. Ive a few bits of info, some links etc to add as we go, all of which are what i have learned to date, ive been spending a lot of time getting this particular group of fungi sorted in my head! I know some of you will scream at me, some will think I am patronising others, some will say its a lesson unrequested. To all of them, get your own threads and leave mine alone, i never asked for your permission, and never will! some people are genuinely interested in what i have to say, though god knows why! so this is for those that asked:001_rolleyes: may god have mercy on my soul and keep me from the arbtalk demons! i can hear skyhuck screaming "release the hounds!":001_tt2:

before i scrolled down i knew that beech was living with merripilus! Ganoderma pfiefferi too by the looks, i have a beech local to me with the same dual decy and the butt and root flare is identical in form. thats a really usefull puzzle piece for me, thanks for posting

well the beauty of the coring/boring/drilling techniques and that includes resisto graph is that you CAN drill down ward into roots and butt to get the below ground decay.

considering the damage done by Sparasis crispa and the hetero and mellea using one to fend of the others would be perpetuating the issues! sparasis crispa is a brown brittle rot that can extend from the roots to 3 mtrs up the stem. There are better "dryads" to seek out, in time i will be up there with these guys doing this research, and I cant wait to get my scopes!