ID for bracket please

[pressld2]

Hi all,

Can anyone help with these two...?



I think the first may be blushing bracket, Daedaleopsis confragosa, mainly because of the deep red-brown colour. Unfortunately the tree stump they're on is in a swamp and I didn't have my wellies so couldn't get any closer shots of the pores.

The second one I have no idea. It appears to have grown around the stick - can they do that? The stick definitely didn't grow through it as it was dead and snapped off. It's possible someone had pushed it through but it didn't look like that as there was no visible damage to the fungi.

Dave P.

[NickCantle]

They both look like Daedaleopsis confragosa to me Dave, but I'd wait for a second opinion...and perhaps a third, then there will be microscopy talk, and then spore size, and then ascii...So I'd say Daedaleopsis confragosa Well I've seen what I thought were Blushing Brackets looking like the specimens in both of the pictures.

Nick

[CloudedYellow]

Originally Posted by pressld2

Hi all,

I think the first may be blushing bracket, Daedaleopsis confragosa, mainly because of the deep red-brown colour.

Dave P.

A confident yes to Daedaleopsis confragosa ('var tricolour' though not a separate sp.) but I could do no more than hazard a guess for the second picture.

Brackets quite often grow around branches and stems of trees and plants. I suppose branches and stout stems must also grow through brackets.


Richard

[NickCantle]

On the subject of objects protruding through brackets, I took this photograph in 2006 of pine needles growing through the brackets.



Interesting

Nick

[Fungus Ken]

Originally Posted by pressld2

Unfortunately the tree stump they're on is in a swamp and I didn't have my wellies so couldn't get any closer shots of the pores.

I detect a certain lack of commitment here. What about all the other rare bog inhabitants that might have been hiding just out of sight, such as Armillaria ectypa? (Perhaps I'd better retract this or the next time I'm on a foray, close by a swamp, my own words may come back to haunt me.)

They all look like Daedaleopsis confragosa to me.

Ken

[Fungus Ken]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

... then there will be microscopy talk, and then spore size, and then ascii...

You could be hunting a long time to find any asci in a bracket like this... which is a basidiomycete.

Ken

[Fungus Ken]

Originally Posted by CloudedYellow

A confident yes to Daedaleopsis confragosa ('var tricolour' though not a separate sp.)

We have discussed var. tricolor in previous threads. I'll just remind everyone what the Basidiomycota Checklist has to say on the subject:

"Daedaleopsis tricolor (= D. confragosa var. tricolor)
Notes: Not authentically British. Reported on numerous occasions from widespread localities in England but all records are dubious, probably referring to old, reddened and partially lamellate basidiomes of D. confragosa. The single collection so named in herb. K is D. confragosa."

D. tricolor would have a lamellate hymenium, unlike the typical daedaleoid pore surface of D. confragosa. Some of the popular field guides have confused the situation by suggesting old reddened specimens of D. confragosa equate to D. tricolor but this is not the case.

Unless you find a specimen that is fully lamellate on the underside, I should dismiss thoughts of D. tricolor.

Ken

[pressld2]

Many thanks everyone - much appreciated!

Originally Posted by Fungus Ken

I detect a certain lack of commitment here. What about all the other rare bog inhabitants that might have been hiding just out of sight, such as Armillaria ectypa?

LOL! You're quite right Ken. Next time I shall just dive in with my camera in my teeth! It was incredibly muddy at Stodmarsh that day and by the state of my trousers when I left for home you'd think I had just waded in. But I'm still a little boy at heart so getting all muddy just adds to the fun!

Dave P.