David Humphries

Ozonium (mycelium outside of the wood volume) & inkcap fruiting body coming from the ozonium.

It’s known as Ozonium (or fire rug) it’s the air mycelium of certain ink cap species 

13 years on from starting this thread and I still get a buzz every autumn from seeing the fruits of the forest and trees.

Some highlights found over the last three or four weeks from London, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire.

Hoof fungus - Fomes fomentarius

Reishi - Ganoderma lucidum

Bearded tooth - Hericium erinaceus

Ischnoderma benzoinum

Anamorphic form of Fistulina hepatica

Shaggy polypore - Inonotus hispidus

Stocking Webcap - Cortinarius torvus

Spindleshank - Gymnopus fusipes

Tawny grissette - Amanita fulva

Porcelain fungi - Mucidula mucida

Amathyst deceiver - Laccaria amethystina

Shaggy scalycap - Pholiota squarrosa

Collared earthstar - Geastrum triplex

Chicken of the woods - Laetiporus sulphureus 2013

Beefsteak - Fistulina hepatica same oak volume as above 2020

Corky wings 

5 hours ago, AJStrees said:

This beech came down in one of the many storms last year. Have left it to see how it progresses. It was certainly hollowing at the base.

These tidy little numbers had popped up a few weeks back. Anyone know what this fungi is?




Also at the base of a pine. Sparassis crispa I would say.

Orange ones are likely to be Pholiota aurivella. Nice Sparassis !

Yes, these are Armillaria mellea, Honey fungus

2 hours ago, Paul in the woods said:

Any idea what they are?  The snouts look a bit like pink beefsteaks and the face has a hint of dryads about it but I'm just guessing.

Both Fistulina hepatica

Inonotus hispidus 

Ganoderma resinaceum, the brown/cocoa spore colour confirms genus, it will be soft to touch which confirms it as one of the three annual UK Ganoderma species. If you wipe off the spore from the surface it will be a red resinous colour. 

Good to see you're still alive Deano ?

How was the leather?

big mast year again 

Vasates quadripedes - Maple bladder gall

Teraneura ulmi - Elm- grass root aphid gall

On ash?

I think it looks like P. fraxinea.

A slice/wedge of the flesh and tube layer would help confirm.

Only other candidate that fits the look at that stage in development is Ganoderma resinaceum, but I think it’s likeky the former. 
another way to tell the difference between those two is the spore, white/cream for Perenniporia, brown/cocoa for G. resinaceum. 

Spangle galls from the gall wasp (Neuroterus quercusbaccaram)

not really a health issue for the tree in my experience

2 hours ago, MattyF said:

I did see this on face book and thought it was a joke .. I had to scroll back and read it properly, tragic news....thoughts out to his friends and family for the loss of a genuine nice guy, he recently reminded me of a job we organised through arb talk as a volunteer group to help an ex service man and wife , he was a great crack through out the day and pub and can only imagine any one who new him well will be devastated.
RIP Alan.

Great picture Matty, sums up the camaraderie and essence of Arbtalk and it’s members really well. 

Very sad to hear, Alan was a great forum character, my sincere condolences to his close friends and family. 

53 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

On fallen chestnut in the woods

Possibly the start of a Trametes sp Maybe T gibbosa 

5 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

Growing out of an Ivy stem, my initial thought was Dyer's mazegill, but i don't think so.

Are the fruit bodies not on a tree volume beneath the ivy, Murray ?

Look a bit like Fuscoporia torulosa

Image not really close enough, but have a look at Coprinellus disseminatus (fairy ink caps)

56 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

I believe a nice fresh beef steak. On the base of an oak (Fistulina hepatica) I took a small piece from underneath to show the gills a bit.

You mean of course ‘pores’ ?

3 hours ago, Ben R said:

Not the most amazing tree you'll ever see, but worth a look:

the famous (in Heres/Glos area) 1,500 year old Yew in St Barts churchyard, Much Marcle. Take a pew inside. Hollowed be thy name.

Presumably in an effort to prevent them from breaking off under their own weight, many of the branches used to held up by huge chains on poles. This made for an interesting spectacle.  Disappointingly, these have since been replaced by a metal 'goalpost'-style framework.

  

That is a bit of a corker 

I think the bracket has grown around the seedling, annual and perennial brackets grow rapidly during initial development.

5 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Probabaly a good call, only ever associate that with Ash and Plane usually. How does it affect Walnut? Largely irrelevant as its going to have to come down due to the Ganoderma at the base anyway 

Grows with apples and sorbus as well.

Depends (as with most of these fung things) on vitality of the tree. Munches away at it nicely, not as significant as ash due to heartwood but often you can see wood pecker holes in the wood volumes in colonised areas and I've noted failed branches associated with it.

Someone needs a proper camera ?

I'd imagine it's Inonotus hispidus, (Shaggy bracket) I see it on Walnut quite often.