Bartley Heath, Hants - 09/04/08

[NickCantle]

Evening chaps and chapettes

Just a report about our day out. David, John (JP) and I ventured out into the Ash forests of Hampshire today for a Morel hunt. What started as a specific hunt turned into a general foray, a good day out and with a few nice finds too.

The species list for the day follows;

Schizopora paradoxa
Piptoporus betulinus
Trametes versicolor
Trametes gibbosa
Sarcocypha austriaca
Ganoderma australe
Flammulina velutipes
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Polyporus brumalis
Tremella mesenterica
Diatrype disciformis
Lycogola terrestre
Dichomitus campestris (To be confirmed)
Peziza repandum (To be confirmed)

There is a complete write up of the day with a few pictures too on my latest blog entry. You can view it using the link below. Please have a look! It took ages to do

Bartley Heath, Hampshire - 09/04/08

Cheers for a good day guys!

Nick

[FungiJohn]

It looks as though you all had a good day Nick despite the lack of morels. That's the main thing .. just to enjoy a foray with friends .. nothing better
John

[cybershot]

Truly a great day out in spring under blue skies with good friends and plenty of exercise is to be well recommended. The route we followed covered some 5 miles between Hook and Warnborough Green, but I suspect our meanderings added a significant amount to that mileage.

Among the unidentified finds was this cushion-like encrustation:




which the urge to label as the polypore, Dichomitus campestris might be somewhat misguided without taking further advice.

David

[Fungus Ken]

It doesn't look at all like Dichomitus campestris to me. The overall a colour seems wrong, it is far too large a bracket and the pores look too small. (Other than that, I can see how you might have thought it was that species.)

What about Phellinus?

Ken

[sarah64]

Thanks for taking the time to do the Blog entry Nick, it was a lovely read with some beautiful pics! Glad you had a good day out. That's great!

[CapAndBracket]

Phellinus punctatus looked obout the right area.
Its so much better when you boys do the photography

Cheers J.P.

[Leif]

I was thinking Phellinus too. I think you will need to examine the spores.

[cybershot]

Growing on willow in deciduous woodland.

David

[mykonik]

Originally Posted by Leif

I was thinking Phellinus too. I think you will need to examine the spores.

Definitely a species of Phellinus ! But not Phellinus punctatus as suggested since that is a flat-resupinate thing (with I might add very few British Records or collections !)

Since it is apparently growing on willows it will probably be Phellinus igniarius BUT if it is, it is not a typical specimen since (P. igniarius is typically ungulate (hoof-shaped) and a more golden-brown, with blackish upper surface than this is !)

Yes, Leif the spores would be a useful thing to measure - the one problem there is that it is very difficult to ever find any in Phellinus species generally, since they seem only to have very short periods when they are fertile !

And, for general information, same goes for various Trametes sp., Heterobasidion annosum, and Fomes fomentarius as well.

Nick

[CapAndBracket]

Now i'm going to have to find time to go back and get a sample of that one unless cybershot gets there before me

On unidentified phellinus i have had my eye on this one for some time.



It's on corylus (Hazel) and is over 4 feet in length along the near horizontal branch.

Cheers J.P.