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22-08-2008, 08:46 PM
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| | | Unknown Bracket growing on Oak.
Found this shiny chap growing on an Oak measuring just under a foot across..Help with an ID would appreciated..  
Many thanx
Julie 
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22-08-2008, 10:09 PM
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| | | Re: Unknown Bracket growing on Oak.
Could it possibly be a Beefsteak Fungus???
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22-08-2008, 10:10 PM
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| | | Re: Unknown Bracket growing on Oak.
could it be southern bracket ganoderma australe(calling to all fungi experts) |
22-08-2008, 10:11 PM
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| | | Re: Unknown Bracket growing on Oak.
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Originally Posted by juliejam  Found this shiny chap growing on an Oak measuring just under a foot across..Help with an ID would appreciated..
Many thanx
Julie | Hi Julie - it's Ganoderma resinaceum.
Very common, cosmopolitan fungus, growing on many species of tree - including the Flamboyant Tree ( Delonix regia) that I had in the garden of our house in St. Lucia (had, being the operative word - it killed it  !!)
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22-08-2008, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mykonik Hi Julie - it's Ganoderma resinaceum.
Very common, cosmopolitan fungus, growing on many species of tree - including the Flamboyant Tree ( Delonix regia) that I had in the garden of our house in St. Lucia (had, being the operative word - it killed it !!)
Nick | Cheers Nick..  Another new find for me..
Just checked out your Delonix regia..quite an impressive tree to have around your garden in your house in St lucia  what ever made you come back to wet old England..
Julie
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22-08-2008, 10:44 PM
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| | | Re: Unknown Bracket growing on Oak.
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Originally Posted by juliejam Cheers Nick.. Another new find for me..
Just checked out your Delonix regia..quite an impressive tree to have around your garden in your house in St lucia what ever made you come back to wet old England..
Julie | Certainly is Julie - personally I think it's the most beautiful tree species in the world, especially when in full bloom (masses of bright scarlet flowers and no leaves !) - but, unfortunately fungi take no notice of beauty and still attack !
I've planted another though, so hopefully in a few years time it will have grown as big as the last one ! Unless the Ganoderma gets it I guess !
I forgot to say, in Europe G. resinaceum is mostly found on oaks (usually near the base) or on old Crack Willow ( Salix fragilis) trees - you can usually tell it from the very obvious yellowish zone around the edge of the basidiomes, this especially vibrant in colour in young, actively growing specimens - it dulls right down when mature !
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22-08-2008, 10:58 PM
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| | | Re: Unknown Bracket growing on Oak.
As I can't make Clumber park this year how about organising one around your garden in St Lucia Nick  |
22-08-2008, 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by flaxton As I can't make Clumber park this year how about organising one around your garden in St Lucia Nick | You can count me in on that too... 
Julie
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22-08-2008, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by mykonik Certainly is Julie - personally I think it's the most beautiful tree species in the world, especially when in full bloom (masses of bright scarlet flowers and no leaves !) - but, unfortunately fungi take no notice of beauty and still attack !
I've planted another though, so hopefully in a few years time it will have grown as big as the last one ! Unless the Ganoderma gets it I guess !
I forgot to say, in Europe G. resinaceum is mostly found on oaks (usually near the base) or on old Crack Willow ( Salix fragilis) trees - you can usually tell it from the very obvious yellowish zone around the edge of the basidiomes, this especially vibrant in colour in young, actively growing specimens - it dulls right down when mature !
Nick | It was very near the base , i had to pull back some of the hedge row to fit the camera inside.
Julie
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23-08-2008, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by juliejam It was very near the base , i had to pull back some of the hedge row to fit the camera inside.
Julie | That sounds a typical habitat for it !
If you ever find anything similar and also large, but with a bright but pale yellowish to apricot-yellowish margin, and growing at the base of Ash trees - that is Perenniporia fraxinia.
Just said that since a lot of people think that too is some type of Ganoderma and ignore it !
Not very common but I think may be increasing - I've discovered since we moved here in Sept. last year that it's very frequent in the environs of Yeovil !
The other one to keep ones eye open for is Rigidoporus ulmarius - forms huge (frequently) brackets right at the base of the trunk of various trees (not just elms as the specific epithet indicate). And easy to identify - looks like a big, pale Ganoderma but the pore surface is orange to orange-beige in colour !
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