Tennis Ball, Cauliflower and Mini-Dryad

Steve Wurzel · #1 (**permalink**) 24-06-2008, 09:25 PM

Well none of the above actually, just a few I spotted tonight, I thought I'd post them here before trying to ID them (as usual

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I'll run a sweepstake on the tennis ball funghi as I won't be around until next Monday.. I hope it won't be gone by then..

about 65mm diameter, on ground under a large deciduous log..

This "cauliflower" was on a well rotting deciduous log..

This "mini dryad's saddle" was on a small rotting log, about 75mm diameter, soft to touch (not woody)..

I figure that will be the easiest.. see if you can beat me to the ID

CapAndBracket · #2 (**permalink**) 24-06-2008, 09:28 PM

I think no1 is a witches egg, Phallus impudicus juvenile stage.

no2 i wait to hear what mykonik say's, interesting.

no3 Polyporus tuberaster.

Cheers J.P.

mykonik · #3 (**permalink**) 24-06-2008, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

I think no1 is a witches egg, Phallus impudicus juvenile stage.

no2 i wait to hear what mykonik say's, interesting.

no3 Polyporus tuberaster.

Cheers J.P.

I think possibly a very young and rather atypically shaped Trametes gibbosa JP.

Nick

Steve Wurzel · #4 (**permalink**) 24-06-2008, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

I think no1 is a witches egg, Phallus impudicus juvenile stage.

no3 Polyporus tuberaster.

No 1. excellent, that will be my first, I agree with that ID so far, the close-up reveals "polystryrene" style markings, which seem to be typical of Phallus impudicus juvenile stage.

No 2. I didn't get a good photo as it was under brambles, and forgot to mention it was about 30mm across, fairly small really. Looking through my photos Creolophus cirrhatus looks vaguely similar, but I agree with Nick on it being an odd shaped juvenile bracket of some sort.

No 3. I wasn't far wrong with a mini-dryad as a description for it

an edible funghi too, but it was on it's own so I'll leave it alone.. until it's friends show up

Steve Wurzel · #5 (**permalink**) 09-07-2008, 11:07 PM

3 weeks on and we have progress..

No1 The "tennisball" is definately Stinkhorn - Phallus impudicus, about 4 had surfaced, this was the best photo I got..

Has anybody here eaten the Witches Egg stage?

No2 the mysterious "cauliflower", now has a close companion on the same log, which probably confirms Trametes gibbosa

..and here's a more staged photo I took of what I guess is Trametes gibbosa with a passing beetle on it

(taken at Plymbridge not Bristol)

and last but by no means least...

No3 the "mini dryad", had dissappeared entirely when I returned a week later, but the large stick on which it was growing was still there, so I thought I would add it to my log collection, but about 50 yards up the path I was distracted by a very large flush of Oysters and put the branch down and forgot to pick it up.

Today I went back to collect more Oysters, and I spotted what looked like another Polyporus tuberaster, incredibly the large stick you see next to the funghi on the right is the same log photographed with the previous funghi that I had left behind!!

Either the funghi had managed to produce new growth on a new branch in under 3 weeks, or by some weird act of synchronicity the 1st branch had rolled off the tree stump where I had left it and actually caused the break you see in the photo.. in other words it probably landed directly on the new funghi!!

Not close (as the photo, but on it!!

Bear in mind the only two examples I have ever seen of this funghi are in the photos you see. Weird, really weird!!

fairplay · #6 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008, 07:38 AM

Steve, I have to go out, but No 2 is interesting - it is NOT Trametes gibbosa
though with that gill effect pore surface.

Neil.

Steve Wurzel · #7 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by fairplay

No 2 is interesting - it is NOT Trametes gibbosa
though with that gill effect pore surface.

Hmm... that could be the camera angle, seeing the pores sideways on, I'll try and get a better shot from directly underneath.

edit.. this is allegedly a photo of Trametes gibbosa pores http://www.dkimages.com/discover/pre...4/20049539.JPG which is a fairly close match IMO

fairplay · #8 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008, 09:59 PM

Oh dear, nobody has come forward to back me up, so perhaps I'm wrong, the shape seems OK for T. gibbosa and the photo with the Violet Ground Beetle on is a dead cert for T. gibbosa but the pores just don't seem right on the under-surface of that 2nd photo, I'm off to bed.

Neil.

mykonik · #9 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fairplay

Steve, I have to go out, but No 2 is interesting - it is NOT Trametes gibbosa
though with that gill effect pore surface.

Neil.

???? It's just a young one Neil !!

Nick

fairplay · #10 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 08:25 AM

Blimey, my first mistake.....ever !!

Neil.

flaxton · #11 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by fairplay

Blimey, my first mistake.....ever !!

Neil.

I'll lend you some of mine then I've got lots to my credit

Mal

Steve Wurzel · #12 (**permalink**) 14-07-2008, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fairplay

Oh dear, nobody has come forward to back me up, so perhaps I'm wrong, the shape seems OK for T. gibbosa and the photo with the Violet Ground Beetle on is a dead cert for T. gibbosa but the pores just don't seem right on the under-surface of that 2nd photo,

Here you are Neil, a slightly different perspective gives an absolute positive match for the underside of Trametes gibbosa shown here.. http://www.dkimages.com/discover/pre...4/20049539.JPG

The image is embedded in the grey stuff now so you can't change my mind