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  1. David Humphries
    I suggest, emptying the old phone memory or take a small digital camera out with you. 🙂 And a guess, If the blue/green ones smelled strongly of aniseed then they are possibly Clitocybe odora - Aniseed Funnel but could also be Stropharia aeruginosa - Verdigris Roundhead. The orange ones maybe Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca - False Chanterelle. Last one could be an Agaric or Lepiota species.
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    The key to learning about fungal identification is looking at (and showing) all the features of the fruiting body. All of these features (gills, pores, stem, spore colour etc) help place the specimens in to family, genus, species. I could possibly take a stab at guessing the ident on your fine examples, but have learnt that more often information is often required to narrow down the idents. Have you got any more shots of the features?
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    A few of my favourite finds of 2022
  4. David Humphries
    bet that was a right crack Mick, we had a great tour there in about ‘95, don’t remember the football much 😁
  5. David Humphries
    not always, although playing at Stamford Bridge was a highlight 😁
  6. David Humphries
    Tour to Berlin in 1991 for a mini tournament against British Military teams. Second from the right.
  7. David Humphries
    Started on a horticultural apprenticeship at 16 in 1985 then the great storm in ‘87 changed my direction into arboricultural, 35 years later I’m still working on and around the same trees, although in a more finger pointing capacity. Nearly finished my apprenticeship 😁
  8. David Humphries
    I think this is more likely to be desiccated Psuedoinonotus dryadeus brackets
  9. David Humphries
    😁 the Benzoin bracket, Ischnoderma benzoinum found on trunks and stumps of dead conifer species
  10. David Humphries
    Some fungal stuff from Thetford forest today
  11. David Humphries
    I would suspect that these are Ganoderma adspersum (the southern bracket) rather than Ganoderma applanatum ( the artist bracket) it’s quite difficult to determine a positive identification from just images of the fruiting body morphology. Microscopic assessment of the spores is really the only way to be sure. The tree appears to be adapting to internal decay and load. The pronounced developing buttressing and leaf coverage suggest good vitality but it would be prudent to have a thorough assessment undertaken by a professional.
  12. David Humphries
    Not entirely sure but habit and features are similar to the clouded funnel (Clitocybe nebularis)
  13. David Humphries
    One of the Hypholoma species like Sulphur tuft,
  14. David Humphries
    A few fruitings from this morning in oak and beech woodland at work in north London. Amanita franchetii, Boletus edulis, Butyriboletus appendiculatus Grifola frondosa, Leratiomyces ceres, Russula ochroleuca, Paxilus involutus
  15. David Humphries
    One of the yellow pored cracking Bolete species, possibly from the Xerocomellus
  16. David Humphries
    Fistulina hepatica, the beefsteak fungus
  17. David Humphries
    Run for your life ! 😁 Meripilus giganteus, (giant polypore) What you’re looking at are just the fruiting bodies of the fungus. By themselves, not what the focus needs to be on, Condition of the crown foliage. Soil health. Exposure to wind load . Level of occupancy around that tree in terms of target. site management protocols in terms of access around the tree during significant weather events. The above are some of the issues that should be considered before a saw is put to use.
  18. David Humphries
    Meripilus giganteus
  19. David Humphries
    Last couple of days at work in north London, the rains have kick started the season
  20. David Humphries
    This is a young developing annual fruit body of Ganoderma resinaceum
  21. David Humphries
    Might be Aurantiporus fossilis, did you manage to check the flesh and tube layer?
  22. David Humphries
    This species of fungi is indicative of an area of dysfunctional wood volume. It will not have caused the dysfunction, but will create a brown rot which will take advantage of the available dehydrated wood. The dysfunction is likely caused by an environmental factor producing a suboptimal condition for the tree to thrive. If that situation continues then the outer living shell of functional wood will diminish and not provide enough structural wood to withstand load and force which may end with whole or part tree failure.
  23. David Humphries
    Lovely Laetiporus example
  24. David Humphries
    Laetiporus 👍
  25. David Humphries
    Last couple of days at work (Hampstead Heath, north London) Laetiporus on dead oak, Meripilus giganteus on live beech, anamorphic stage of Fistulina hepatica on live oak, Neolentinus lepideus on conifer sleepers, Inonotus hispidus on live weeping ash, Gymnopus fusipes on live hornbeam, Cerioporus squamosus on dead something or other & Fomes on dead oak branch.

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