Fungus

Today I found Inonotus cuticularis on Acer. ---

Heterobasidion annosum.

1. , though I've never seen it on beech. 2. I've never seen Mycena pura looking like this. Did it have a smell of radish ?

Tony, Thank you for what ? For trying to sell you "authenticated" trees inoculated with a non-existing truffle species, because the anonymous reseller twice calls Tuber aestivum (= T. uncinatum) Tuber aesatvium on his website, without a "money return" guarantee if not fruiting within your life time ? And why doesn't the reseller inform you which nurseries his commercial products originate from : the U.K., the southern parts of France, or from Italy, a country selling Boletus edulis coming from Sweden as original Italian "funghi porcini" ? The reason might be, that from the soutern European countries lots of "certified" inoculated trees are exported, that are known to be inproductive on the short run or not productive at all, or if (re)productive, start fruiting during the life time of your (future) children or children's children. Is training and renting or selling truffle dogs or pigs also part of his commercial business, or are you going to "sniff" and dig out the truffles yourself ? I thought you knew better by now after the discussion on mycorrhizae products and biochar on this forum. Just ask yourself, why would owners of truffle tree nurseries and "orchards" with Quercus robur, Q. ilex and hazel sell you inoculated trees, if they knew beforehand, that you being succesfull in producing truffles would bring down the market value to one half or less of the present price of truffles ?

Also known as Calliteara pudibunda.

Gollum, 1. Too young to say what this is going to be. Could f.i. be(come) Bjerkandera adusta or B. fumosa. 2. Trametes versicolor. 3. Smell earthy, of sperm, or as a Belgian nature guide once said : of what nuns don't know nor recognize with their nose ? If so : Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina.

Nimby, No, this is Trametes gibbosa, a perennial saprotrophic white rotter, which on beech is preceeded (succession) by Bjerkandera adusta, an annual saprotrophic species, that decomposes dead wood with organohalogens or polyaromatic hydrocarbons.

David, With Coprinus ??? I suppose you mean with Carpinus ?

Nice one, Tony, My wife and I just had the much smaller one in the photo I found yesterday for diner.

1. Conocybe aporus fruits in spring, so it probably is C. (= Pholiotina) arrhenii. 2. ... and Stereum hirsutum on the vertical saw cut. 3. . 4. Paxillus involutus (if not associated with Alnus).

Jane, 1. An acorn has an energy reserve for 3-5 years and has to associate within that period with a pioneer ectomycorrhizal macrofungus or a symbiont (still) attached to secundary roots of the "mother" tree, to develop a primairy root system, that is supplied with water and nutrients by the mycelium of the ectomycorrhizal symbiont, and to develop foliage to produce its own energy, or else the seedling will die. 2. Never heard of the dynamics of and succession in the life cycles of tree species specific ecosystems, their soil food webs and the dominant tree species specific ectomycorrhizal macrofungi, on which the tree depends for water, nutrients and minerals such as phosphorous (reproduction : DNA), for protection of their roots against parasites, drought, salt, toxic metals and for sudden temporary temperature or pH changes, play in them ?

... causing white rot.

David, And "sitting" on and trying to colonize and penetrate the melanine plaque is a Trichoderma species, probably T. viride, the anamorph of Hypocrea rufa, of which the teleomorph also is present.

5/6 + 10/11 : Lactarius deliciosus or L. semisanguifluus. 7/8/9 : could be Russula caerulea. 12/13 : possibly Hygrophorus ligatus. 14 : : P. schweinitzii.

Rob, 2. Armillaria species, probably A. mellea. 4. Calocera cornea (C. viscosa : coniferous wood). 5. Sorbus is associated with endomycorrhizal microfungi, so this is a saprotrophic Psathyrella species.

To make identification easier, some information on the characteristics of the fungi and the trees they could be associated with would have been welcome. 1. Possibly Mycena galopus var. galopus. 2. Maybe Inocybe spec. (trees ?). 3. Pisolithus arhizus (= P. tinctorius), an ectomycorrhizal symbiont of very young birch, willow and pine on very acid soils (pH 1/2). 4. ??? 5/6. Lactarius deterrimus (spruce) or L. deliciosus (pine). 7/8/9. Russula species (trees ?). 10/11. Lactarius deterrimus (spruce) or L. deliciosus (pine). 12/13. Hygrophorus species (trees ?). 14. Myxomycete or brackets fungus ??? and if a macrofungus, on dead wood of what tree ? 15/16. Laccaria proxima. 17/18. Neotiella rutilans, Octospora humosa or O. melina, etc. : microscope. 19. Hygrocybe miniata. 20. Galerina spec.

Matt, This could be Schizopora paradoxa, a resupinate poroid fungus looking like and often mistaken for a resupinate dentate fungus or fungus with spines.

David, Maybe you could draw your colleages' attention to the synopsis of what I wrote in Der Tintling on the subject of climate, trees (mast year) and ectomycorrhizal macrofungi.

David, Especially the last single one in the last photo seems to be developing towards becoming Calvatia excipuliformis.

Marco, So the mushroom with gills was on Aesculus ? If so, it must be something else than Hypsizygus ulmarius or H. tessulatus, but without further information on the gills, stipe, spore colour and the smell, I can't give a name to it.

Then it could be Tricholoma ustaloides, T. sejunctum (smell of flour) or T. saponaceum (smell of soap).

Well, as you British say, all bad things come in three .

There are no effects specific to Eucalytus, as this is a generalistic saprotrophic pioneer species decomposing bark and cambium died of other causes.

Tobias, And then there's the fire test. When you strike a match and hold the flame close to the crust on top of a F. pinicola bracket, the resin rich top layer melts.

No, of course not, you have to take all before given characteristics into account. This specimen has : - big perennial brackets, - is growing higher up the trunk of the tree, - has distinct "annual" concentric zones becoming almost black at the centre, - and will undoubtedly have pale yellowish pores, so definitely is not H. annosum.