David Humphries

The thought had crossed my mind, but it's not my site so would probably piss off some ecologists and be kinda rude.

Yeah it's a good looking fung that one. Would be interesting to get the chance to slice a stem up that has it. Have seen plenty of brown rotted crumbling stumps but not seen a clean cross section of the decay yet.

Red banded polypore (Fomitopsis pinicola) on beech at Burnham Beeches. posted this a couple of years ago (which was new record for the site) its developed nicely in that time.

Ground frost hiding from the warmth of the morning sun in the shade cast by holly

Looking forward to watching it, thanks for the heads up.

Mmmmmm, make sure you go deeper than they did at Burnham as they're still waiting for their ring-bark beech pollard to top die ...........25 years later

wouldn't take just because it's not recorded on a particular host species as gospel Gary. Plenty of the frdbi records are listed as purely 'on wood' without stating a specific tree species. I don't imagine there's any reason why corraloides couldn't colonise the dying/dysfunctional wood volumes of a wider range of tree species than is currently recorded. last time I saw coralloides fruiting was in September

What makes you think they are not Hericiums Gary?

H. erinaceus is a highly prized culinary super fung. The Chinese have long coveted its medicinal properties. The majority of fruit bodies of this species found for sale in the culinary and medicinal market place are from inoculated dowels placed in to appropriate dead wood volumes and harvested. Picking this particular species from the wild is actually a criminal offence.

Nice

If you click the FRDBI links at the base of each post, they show all the individual UK records of locations. These NBN maps also give a rough location for each species H. erinaceus H. corraloides H. cirrhatum

Hericium cirrhatum aka tiered tooth fungi Not as rare as the previous two, can be found hosted on beech, horse chestnut, silver birch, ash, oak, maple and elm http://www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/FRDBIrecord.asp?intGBNum=16988

Hericium corraloides aka coral toothed fungi Another biodiversity action plan species with a near threatened conservation status. Usual host is beech, but also recorded from ash and elm. http://www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/FRDBIrecord.asp?intGBNum=5818

Hericium erinaceus aka the bearded tooth H. erinaceus is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan species and one of only four species of fungi on schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 Usual host is beech, but can also be found on oak http://www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/FRDBIrecord.asp?pg=3

Relatively rare trio of species of dead/dysfunctional wood volume saprotrophs that are easily identified by their drooping icicle like spines. Hericium erinaceus Hericium corraloides Hericium chirahtus

Rigidoporus ulmarius ould be a guess Any slices taken to show the flesh and pore layer?

Yeah, that's rubbish What's it on ?

I've personally only seen Armillaria sp associated with pine once and that did have stem bleeds/exudation and rhizomorphs. I didn't get a positive micro Id on the fruit bodies at the time, but suspect that it was A. ostoyea (rather than A. mellea) due to its macro features and it being more often associated with coniferous species. There are many records of Armillaria sp on pine within the FRDBI pages, but I get the impression that cedar, cypress & wellingtonia are more susceptible to colonisation than pine. Probably worth having a good root around the bases of the trees if you get a chance to return to them. .

I don't know, though there is a published reading list associated with the speakers. The World and Nature of Fungi – list of further reading Alexander, K. & Green, T. 2013. The nature conservation work of the Crown Estate in Windsor Forest and Great Park. British Wildlife 24(5):305-315. Alexander, K., Butler, J. & Green, T. 2006. The value of different tree and shrub species to wildlife. British Wildlife. 18(1):18-28.. Bidartondo, M.I. 2005. The evolutionary ecology of myco-heterotrophy. New Phytologist 167:335–352. Bidartondo, M.I., Read, D.J., Trappe, J.M., et al., 2011, The dawn of symbiosis between plants and fungi, Biology Letters. 7:574-577. Campbell, C.R. 2012. Frog skin epithelium: Electrolyte transport and chytridiomycosis. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 44: 431-434. Chytridcrisis blog: https://chytridcrisis.wordpress.com Collier, F.A., Bidartondo, M.I., 2009. Waiting for fungi: the ectomycorrhizal invasion of lowland heathlands. Journal of Ecology, 97:950-963. Field, K.J. et al. 2015. Symbiotic options for the conquest of land. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30(8):477-486. Fisher, M. et al. 2012. Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health. Nature 484:186-194. Fisher, M.C., Gow, N.A.R., Gurr, S.J.. 2016 Tackling emerging fungal threats to animal health, food security and ecosystem resilience. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371: 20160332. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0332 Fisher, M., Gow, N.A.R. & Gurr, S.J. (eds) 2016. Discussion meeting issue ‘Tackling emerging fungal threats to animal health, food security and ecosystem resilience’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 371(1709) bit.ly/PTB1709 Garner, T.W.J. 2012. Chytrid Fungus in Europe. Emerging infectious diseases 11:1639–1641. doi:10.3201/eid1110.050109 Kibby, G. 2017. Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe, Volume 1: Puffballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, Chanterelles, Toothed Fungi, Club Fungi, Coral Fungi, Polypores, Crust Fungi, Boletes & Their Relatives, Russula & Milkcaps Kowal, J. et al. 2016. Liverworts to the rescue: an investigation of their efficacy as mycorrhizal inoculum for vascular plants. Functional Ecology 30:1014–1023. McMullen, M. et al. The ash dieback invasion of Europe was founded by two individuals from a native population with huge adaptive potential. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/146746 Merckx, V.S.F.T., Gomes, S.I.F., Wapstra, M. et al., 2017. The biogeographical history of the interaction between mycoheterotrophic Thismia (Thismiaceae) plants and mycorrhizal Rhizophagus (Glomeraceae) fungi. Journal of Biogeography, 44:1869-1879. Simpson, J. & Barley, L. 2012. Ensuring ancient trees for the future. Guidelines for oak bollard creation. Quarterly Journal of Forestry 157:277-286. Suz, L.M., Barsoum, N., Benham, S., et al., 2014. Environmental drivers of ectomycorrhizal communities in Europe's temperate oak forests. Molecular Ecology 23(22):5628-44. Suz, L.M., Barsoum, N., Benham, S., et al., 2015. Monitoring ectomycorrhizal fungi at large scales for science, forest management, fungal conservation and environmental policy Annals of Forest Science 9pp. Voyles, J. et al. 2007. Electrolyte depletion and osmotic imbalance in amphibians with chytridiomycosis. Diseases of aquatic organisms 77:113–118 doi: 10.3354/dao01838

Mmmmmmmeripilus ! 5.23m girth Squidgy white rot !

Series of free lectures on fungi at Birkbeck University Can't attend any of these myself, but have been before and got lots out of them http://www.bbk.ac.uk/geography/our-research/ecss/free-public-lectures 9th February - Recording fungi in the 21st Century - the challenges and problems for both enthusiasts and professionals. Geoffrey Kibby, Associate Researcher Mycology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; author of many guides to mushrooms and toadstools. 16th February - Old trees and fungi and biological continuity. Ted Green, Founder President of Ancient Trees Forum, honorary lecturer Imperial College, University of London, Vice President of the International Tree Foundation and Conservation Consultant to the Crown Estate, Windsor. 23rd February - Fungal symbiosis with plants. Martin Bidartondo, Reader in Molecular Ecology, Imperial College London & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2nd March - Tackling emerging fungal threats to animal health, food security and ecosystem resilience.Matthew Fisher, Professor of Fungal Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London 9th March - Opportunistic fungi and damage to heritage buildings and collections. Sophie Downes, Birkbeck Biology 16th March - Ash dieback. Maryam Rafiki, Researcher, Jodrell Laboratory, Kew.

Or perhaps adaptation manifests with good soil quality and good soil moisture level?

All from today at work Sarcoscypha species on what may have been crab apple in north London today (thinking S. austriaca, but no mycro confirmation) Kretschmaria deusta on sycamore Piptoporus betulinus Xylaria carpophila

Sycamore with a long term colonisation of Kretzschmaria deusta (first noted it in 2008 but the buttress morphology suggests that it has been within this tree for 'much' longer. Fine habitat tree with numerous cavities and cracks that has been home to bats, wood peckers and other assorted feathery things. We reduced the sail by 2/3 meters in 2009. The canopy has filled out again in the following 9 years so we have just reduced it again to manage the sail in terms of wind load. Although the core is decayed, the Ketzschmaria appears to have been largely compartmentalised as the buttresses remain intact. Following images are from today. Rob (Dendrophile) in the saddle

Did you consider Armillaria? any presence or lack of rhizomorphs aound the root collar?