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  1. Fungus
    No, just L. decastes s.s. (= L. fumosum s.l., including L. cinerascens; L. decastes).
  2. Fungus
    David, 1. Need I say more ? 2. I did, remember I told you the long stalked Marasmius smelling of garlic was M. alliaceus ?
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    Robin, How often is often and under what conditions other than inflicted on beeches by men (pollution, pollarding) ? Based upon the lack of documentation, I thought it was exceptional in the U.K. and mostly restricted to pollarded veterans. Differing from the sea climate in the U.K., depending on the dominant wind direction, in the western parts of the European continent we have a mixture of a sea climate (in The Netherlands 75 % of the year) and land climate (in The Netherlands a quarter (winter period) of the year). Going east, the influence of the land climate increases. And we have beech forests on poor sandy soils, on rich clay or loam and on calcareous soils, on which the tree species specific ecosystems, including the ectomycorrhizal symbionts, vary to a certain extent.
  4. Fungus
    Mike, Does it resemble the bark (of oak and ash) covering colonies of red (to orange) algae that are shown in the photo ? ---
  5. Fungus
    Robin, 1. Coprinus atramentarius 2. Lyophyllum decastes
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    Deal, but "alle gekheid op een stokje" (= all joking apart), I've monitored beech woods with beeches of all ages all over the European continent and I've never seen this phenomenon happening within a natural forest once.
  7. Fungus
    David, It wouldn't be the first time to see two species of Armillaria fruiting within short distance of one another on the same tree .
  8. Fungus
    ... which - IMO and IME - is not the most sensible thing to do with P. squarrosa on lime.
  9. Fungus
    , along with lots of a long stalked Mycena species.
  10. Fungus
    . No Volvariella surrecta on any of these FB's ?
  11. Fungus
    A. gallica (= A. lutea/bulbosa) has no distinct ring (zone), so : 1/4 : A. mellea with whitish ring 5/6 : probably A. ostoyae with dark brown scales at the margin of not yet opened ring 7 : A. mellea s.l. ?
  12. Fungus
    Marco, Armillaria mellea for starters and are you sure it's a Ganoderma fruiting on the fence panel ?
  13. Fungus
    You're looking at the downside of it. It's the yellowish ring torn from the cap's margin, that before covered the gills, with a yellow flocculate margin, which is characteristic of A. mellea.
  14. Fungus
    Any documentation of this strategy resulting in a healthy and long term, i.e. 100-200 + years surviving beech, developing its tree species specific ecosystem, following its tree species specific life cycle and reproducing according to it passing on its genes to a new generation ?
  15. Fungus
    Armillaria mellea s.s. it is.
  16. Fungus
    David, Under natural forest conditions, i.e. abiding to the laws of nature and following the tree species specific life cycle, its "natural life expectancy" is not 600-700 years as is the case with artificially pollarded beeches, is it ?
  17. Fungus
    Only if the fungal participant is a tree species specific pathogen and totally depends on the tree species for its survival (refugium), which is not the case with the parasitic macrofungi I mentioned before, as all have developed strategies to infect and invade some or even lots of other tree species. And among pathogens, co-evolution hardly ever is the leading principle, it's all about struggle for life and survival of the fittest anyhow. Armillaria ostoyae won't shed a tear when it finally succeeds in killing all other pathogens it for now has to compete with .
  18. Fungus
    Of course I see it as an example of a tree that has failed and is reiterating it's connection to the trunks axis, but I don't see the tree surviving this way and passing on its genes, and that's what life (of trees) is all about, so this is a lost case scenario in the end. Did you ever see a robust, healthy and for the greater part fertile reproducing beech come from this ?
  19. Fungus
    How about this beech ? ---
  20. Fungus
    Sloth, 1. Hebeloma species (ectomycorrhizal), smell of radish ? 2. Lepiota species, might be L. cristata.
  21. Fungus
    Sloth, No, M. galericulata.
  22. Fungus
    David, I've seen this too, but : - these are not very old or veteran beeches - these are not adventitious rootlets surrounding the trunk's base associated with the survival strategy - including L. amethystina - of veteran beeches to invest in passing on their own genes as I described before - in this way, the beech doesn't survive nor reproduce or invest in its genes to spread (on the long run) - beeches often develop these rootlets in the by the mycelia (or rhizomorphs) of Armillaria species, Fomes fomentarius, Inonotus cuticularis or Pholiota aurivella decomposed wood of acute forks triggering an early fall of half of the crown leaving a massive open wound behind ("suicidal tree", becoming a parasite of itself) and by that in no way contributing to the survival of the tree and its genes.
  23. Fungus
    Sure, some tree species can and some are even famous for it, but can you document that from beeches ?
  24. Fungus
    What's the difference ? We're talking about a beech in the final phase of its tree species specific life cycle trying to invest in passing on its own genes through its own offspring as its survival strategy. And you're too quick citing me (again), it said : Besides, beeches don't regenerate by epicormic growth.
  25. Fungus
    How can these roots continue to grow after the tree dies because of old age and/or an infection with Meripilus or Armillaria ? Besides, beeches don't regenerate by epicormic growth.

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