Fungus of the day!

[waxcap]

Originally Posted by waxcap

I found this today - Leccinium Holopus. Not great photos but I was pleased to find it.





Dave

OK, Maybe it was a Very Very pale Leccinium scabrum. I don't have a microscope.

[NickCantle]

That's not L. scabrum mate, it looks good to me.

[waxcap]

Thanks Nick.

I found this a couple of months earlier in the same area. I'm not sure if it is holopus as well.



Dave

[Chris Yeates]

following the collection of a very interesting sample of stream foam from a steep clough near Mytholmroyd I shall shortly re-animate the Ascomycetes in rivulets below water level thread as we are now entering the main season for 'Ingoldian' fungi (if not Andreas' spring discomycetes).

For starters, though, and I think well worthy of a "Fungus of the Day", check out this fungus spore (admittedly strictly a conidium - an asexual spore); compare that to the rather ordinary ones on the Crepidotus epibryus above; those average around 8.5µm long - this is well over 300µm (around a third of a millimetre - you can see it with a handlens!


Anyway more of this and several other "goodies" including one new to Yorkshire (and these fungi have been relatively well-studied in the county) on the other thread when I've taken so more photo's tomorrow.

cheers
(a very happy)

PS - that is not, of course, its natural colour; this has been stained with ammoniacal Congo Red
Chris

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by waxcap

I found this today - Leccinium Holopus. Not great photos but I was pleased to find it.





Dave

Did you cut it in half and note any colour change?
Mal

[waxcap]

aaaaaaahhhhh!

No!

I had my Opinel in my pocket and yet I still failed to deploy it. I was overcome with finding a white bolete! I'll try harder next time.

Dave

[waxcap]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

For starters, though, and I think well worthy of a "Fungus of the Day", check out this fungus spore (admittedly strictly a conidium - an asexual spore); compare that to the rather ordinary ones on the Crepidotus epibryus above; those average around 8.5µm long - this is well over 300µm (around a third of a millimetre - you can see it with a handlens!


Anyway more of this and several other "goodies" including one new to Yorkshire (and these fungi have been relatively well-studied in the county) on the other thread when I've taken so more photo's tomorrow.

cheers
(a very happy)

PS - that is not, of course, its natural colour; this has been stained with ammoniacal Congo Red
Chris

Sorry to interupt your post Chris. I felt like a chimp trying to understand particle physics when I read it.

Dave

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by waxcap

Sorry to interupt your post Chris. I felt like a chimp trying to understand particle physics when I read it.

Dave

No worries - anything mycological goes here of course - I'm sorry if it seems complicated . . . .

it's just that this forum allows one to draw people's attention to lots of different fungi, in lots of different places, doing lots of different things - the Dendrospora alongside Leccinum holopus (which I'm sure is correct btw) give a perfect example of the diversity of the fungal world

bless them all . . .

Chris

[Ditiola]

My fungus of the day is this fantastic group of Fly Agaric.


Peter




The strange thing is the only tree nearby was a Cedrus atlantica. The fly agarics were spread over quite an area to one side of the Cedrus. I wondered if there had been a birch tree that had been removed but there was no sign of stump and the grass was not newly seeded so I asume it was mychorrizal with the Cedrus!

[fairplay]

Could they be more mychorrhizal with THE BODY

Neil.