Kveldssanger

Masterclass of an LP from very late in '99. Incorporates folk elements into black metal with some sublime melodies. For anyone curious as to what this type of music sounds like, sit down for 40 minutes and listen to this. Perfect entry into the style. [ame] [/ame]

Scleroderma citrinum from today... Maybe Scleroderma verrucosum, due to a possible pseudostipe? This one was also a lot smaller.

Aye! Only difference is I saw one (of many) today within a heavily-decayed birch log, instead of oak. Such cool things.

Nice photos. Saw plenty of them today at Laindon Common.

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I have uploaded these to a host site so that you can zoom in. This first one strikes me somewhat of Psathyrella piluliformis, notably with the clay-brown gills, though the ones in the images appear slightly sinuate (if my understanding is correct). Potentially also could be Simocybe sumptuosa? LINK: The second one has medium brown (near walnut-coloured) spore, white adnexed gills (stained by the spore), and is a saprotroph of wood (host was a fallen broadleaved stem, either ash or oak). The cap has a nice umbo, too. I'd have said Pluteus but the gills aren't free. Using Jordan's key doesn't take me anywhere near where I should be, so I must be using it wrong. Cap was very wet. LINK: This lot was on some deadwood in a broadleaved deciduous woodland. Far more caps than just this little cluster. Slightly akin to a mature lot of Mycena galericulata? The gills aren't anywhere near pink, though. I have stumped (no pun) myself with this one. LINK: These guys were on a fallen birch log. The caps looked and felt squarrose, though I cannot identify a Pholiota species this would represent. Lepiota also uncertain of as the flesh isn't white; notably on the stipe. LINK:

That oak had some awesome Laeti come out on it this year. Great photos! The one in the snow and ice is awesome.

Certainly is Coprinellus / Coprinopsis. Potentially Coprinellus silvaticus.

That's fine then. Healthy tree!

Dysfunctional doesn't begin to cover it.

Getting there! Taking its time but getting out more and looking at stuff is working. As if it wouldn't...

It might even be Xanthoporia radiata? Xanthoporia = yellow pores. Easy enough. Species Fungorum - Species synonymy

I have posted a lot of images here: https://arboriculture.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/an-assortment-of-fungal-finds/ Hopefully my IDs are on point. Many others I saw I didn't upload, and some I really don't know what I am looking at so might have to share those photos another day for better eyes to pry over. A cool association of Daldinia on birch, however. It's also fighting with Trametes versicolor. See:

Well there goes my next two minutes by changing my directory for my photos of Inonotus radiatus! Such a damned hipster... Would you say mid November is too late? Cannot get there before then, sadly. Hatfield this weekend and New Forest next.

One for next summer, certainly - probably a touch too late in the season now, for fresh ones. Thanks.

Nice finds. Saw plenty of Mycena today, as well as Pluteus and a few bits I am yet to identify. A stray Ganoderma lucidum, too.

16/10/16. #208. I just posted another one of these over on my blog. It's over 7,000 words, and took two hours just to edit, so please accept my apologies for asking you to view it over on my blog rather than sorting it all out here, too! URL: https://arboriculture.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/trees-and-religion-paganism/

Good track, that. Feel sorry for the dudes that were rendered infertile after taking a handrail to the nutsack...

A monster of a track, back when the UK was producing good metal acts and LPs. [ame] [/ame]

[ame] [/ame] 2:45 onwards is plain epic. Nice mix of styles, with this track, and almost comes off as traditional / heavy metal.

Oh the PDF is great - CTRL+F'ing a phrase in an entire book is blissful. I'd say this is one of the more important books, though, in terms of core value.

Careful. In its early primordial splodge stage, Merip can be confused with Laeti. As can be seen here, the fact it is coming out from between roots is tell-tale of Merip. If it was on the trunk, it'd far more likely be Laeti - not always, as Merip can fruit on the lower trunk.

Buy the book, guys! Support the ATF and Tree Council.

Indeed! Quite amazing, really. Meiggs' book is one you'd love (referenced in the Christian post), and I have linked to where you can buy it. I do not know of any other book that covers the building of the Temple in such detail beyond Evans' one (also cited), though pay attention to this upcoming book, too (stays with cedar, but more with ships). Email them to go on the mailing pre-order list.

That's indeed something! Are they P. dryadeus? Look different to how they usually look - notably the tapering-off on the underside, and the atop colour.