Fungus

I would guess lipsiense, but no where near enough to go on yet

IME on Salix it's 90 % G. australe.

The concepts of ananomorph (asexual reproductive stage) & telemorph (sexual reproductive stage) will now been eliminated from the international code of nomenclature. In part to ensure that one fungi is given one name. Comes into effect from Jan 2013

So one problem solved, another created. What to do with species of which only an anamorph is known without a teleomorph being documented ?

Ramaria sp

Sean,

I think this is a Clavicorona (= Artomyces) species growing on dead wood.

What odd behaviour, I wonder why the do it?

Sloth,

New foliage and flower buds are rich in proteins and vitamins. It's the same with singing birds nourishing themselves with pollen of willow and pine.

And sparrows eat yellow crocus flowers and cows pilewort flowers for their spring dose of carotene.

Spotted this crack on a limb today while dead wooding, just wondered any thoughts on it & would you go to the trouble of "scanning " the limb to get a better idea of the depth of the crack, I've found in the past some look dodgy but didn't go that far into the limb

John,

What's the black stuff breaking through or growing on the bark to the right of the crack in the second picture ? Dried out reminants of fungi, such as Chondrostereum purpureum or a Xylaria spp. ?

Love the way that the owners of this property obviously have an affinity for the remains of this tree & its fungal inhabitants

David,

Nice documentation . Do you know whether the brackets close to the cut were there before or appeared after the tree was felled ? Both ways, it seems like an example of panic fruiting with as much fb's as possible.

1. I. cuticularis = Daedaleopsis confragosa

2. pores like Trametes = Schizopora paradoxa

aurivella

Never seen P. aurivella so close to the base on a standing tree.

is the selective delignification an early stage though? with more complete degradation later?

No, it is not.

what associates with them before we found this

Tony,

See my post.

found today on huge leaning Beech

John,

Put some gills in water and try to locate a cluster of spores : white spores = Armillaria, brown spores is Pholiota species.

the white (simaltaneous rot) Ganoderma.

Great documentation of the white rot with selective delignification of the Ganoderma.

a beetle that has ONLY been found on Inonotus cuticularis brackets, and only when they are inside cavities!

Tony,

Can you give me the latin name of this beetle ?

Is there any documentation of damage done by Rose-ringed Parakeets to other tree species and of them being a threat to other birds and especially bats because they take over their sleeping and nesting holes ?

Looks a bit Entoloma like

Entoloma has pinkish spores, this is a Psilocybe, maybe P. montana.

Quite soft and spongy is all I can recall. It was taken about 7 years ago. It's on Tilia.

David,

Too young to say, could be a number of annual (?) bracket fungi. My best shot would be Abortiporus biennis.

Peziza sp? on rotting woodchip.

Matt,

Yes, probably Peziza vesiculosa.

Either way they all look like voracious wood munchers... agreed or not?

Agreed, concerning the damage to the tree it makes no difference.

I have yet to see oxy in the u.k, I would suggest rigidiporus is a far more likely candidate here on poplars

Tony,

Could that be because you never checked any possible Oxyporus microscopically ?

A quick check and it seems quite invasive/destructive... is this so?

Yes, because of the poor wood quality of poplars, it often is.

fungi on a black poplar.. is it ganoderma?

No, it probably is Oxyporus populinus.

Fuscoporia wahlbergii (as Phellinus wahlbergii), on/with Quercus robur, wood inside hollow trunk, parkland with scattered trees, 10/06/2010, England, East Suffolk, Butley, Staverton Park, TM357511, coll.: N. Mahler, id: N. Mahler, conf.: A.M. Ainsworth, herb.: K(M)165828, FRDBI Record No.: 1641340, Origin of Record: RBG Kew 'herbtrak' + herb. K (full record data).

Great find of a species I never had the luck of documenting it myself .

Is this Gloeophyllum odoratum? It's on a topped-out Leylandii stem. Only one top out of 100s that had this. Bodies are approx. 2cm and hard.

Graham,

Definitely not G. odoratum that should have a very strong smell of fennel. This probably is a still developing and partially resupinate Trametes with a velvet surface on top.

Phellinus pomaceus/tuberculosus is more than likely the culprit on a cerasifera

Not just more than likely, but the only possible candidate on Prunus .

Have to say this is a more stimulating debate than the christian one

Did you miss my "pagan" contribution to the christian debate then ?