Lentinus tigrinus - confirmation, please

[solus]

OK, for once I'm pretty sure I've got this ID right but I'd like it confirmed (or otherwise) by the experts here before I ask for the photos to be moved to the Gallery and the A-Z.

Found yesterday on Willow in a ditch in a rather soggy part of the Coombe Hill Meadows Gloucestershire WT Reserve. If perchance I am correct, please will someone move the pics for me? Thanks.

Oh, and I wasn't in the ditch - I leaned through from the walkway and pulled a bit of loose log towards me so's I could get a close shot of one of the funguseses!

[CapAndBracket]

For the moment i'm going to say it looks like you are today's luck luck lucky forayer, (would i have been pleased to find those).

Cheers J.P.

[solus]

Who cares about finding all these common things like morels, eh? Mind, I still want to see one. Any one as I'm not going to eat 'em!

I did stumble over my first St George's on Monday evening and some Yellow Fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans) too - we'd gone to listen to some Grasshopper Warblers up on Cleeve Common and I'd left my camera in the car so had to pick a couple of each and photograph them with flash out of context on a piece of wall-stone back at the car park when it was nearly dark!

[fairplay]

For what it's worth, I'm prepared to second JP's approval.

I last saw this species about 10 years ago, again on Willow, at the edge of Framlingham Meare in Suffolk. Water levels were low at the time to make it easier for accumulated silt to be dredged out for a large restoration project and I was able to make my way to previously inaccessible Willows in the hope of finding something different.

The Willow was waterlogged just as the Willow in your photo appears to be.

Neil.

[mykonik]

Originally Posted by solus

OK, for once I'm pretty sure I've got this ID right but I'd like it confirmed (or otherwise) by the experts here before I ask for the photos to be moved to the Gallery and the A-Z.

Found yesterday on Willow in a ditch in a rather soggy part of the Coombe Hill Meadows Gloucestershire WT Reserve. If perchance I am correct, please will someone move the pics for me? Thanks.

Oh, and I wasn't in the ditch - I leaned through from the walkway and pulled a bit of loose log towards me so's I could get a close shot of one of the funguseses!

Yes, Solus, confirmed - Lentinus tigrinus !

Nice find but not as rare as people think - usually in wet places, usually on willow (frequently Salix fragilis) and evn fruits on on logs floating in the water !!

Nick