Pick up sticks

[kiltoncomp]

while searching for an id to another fungi, i came across a photo of Datronia mollis on the bioimages website,(Datronia mollis (Sommerf.) Donk, 1966 (Common Mazegill)) that looks very much like the one below,
could this be a posibility, i still cannot find any reference to the Hypoxylon having the white gill like features which this one has,
(there is an example of D.mollis in the Gallery , but it is nothing like this one)
Brian.

Originally Posted by kiltoncomp

Three more fungi found this morning in Clumber Park ,all found on fallen beech branches,

no1/ this was growing alongside Hypoxylon fragiforme on the branch, the top surface looked very much like the Hypoxylon sp,

[Kayleigh]

Found on a log/wood pile in my garden the wood was sold as firewood but I had other ideas..
I wasn't expecting fungi to grow on it though..
Nice surprise.



No idea what it is..

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

Found on a log/wood pile in my garden the wood was sold as firewood but I had other ideas..
I wasn't expecting fungi to grow on it though..
Nice surprise.



No idea what it is..

Kayleigh
It looks like one of the Stereums. Try "scoring" it and see if it changes to red.
Then you have either rugosum or gausapatum.
Mal

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Kayleigh
It looks like one of the Stereums. Try "scoring" it and see if it changes to red.
Then you have either rugosum or gausapatum.
Mal

Well I tried Scoring it..Its frozen solid so it didn't change colour will try again when its thawed..

Cheers Mal

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by kiltoncomp

while searching for an id to another fungi, i came across a photo of Datronia mollis on the bioimages website,(Datronia mollis (Sommerf.) Donk, 1966 (Common Mazegill)) that looks very much like the one below,
could this be a posibility, i still cannot find any reference to the Hypoxylon having the white gill like features which this one has,
(there is an example of D.mollis in the Gallery , but it is nothing like this one)
Brian.

hi Brian

your fungus could well be Datronia mollis (though don't take that as a 100% ID) it can be quite variable depending on how its substrate is lying; I am confused when you say "i still cannot find any reference to the Hypoxylon having the white gill like features which this one has" as Hypoxylon is a genus of ascomycete fungi and certainly doesn't have gills . . .

cheers

Chris

[kiltoncomp]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

hi Brian

your fungus could well be Datronia mollis (though don't take that as a 100% ID) it can be quite variable depending on how its substrate is lying; I am confused when you say "i still cannot find any reference to the Hypoxylon having the white gill like features which this one has" as Hypoxylon is a genus of ascomycete fungi and certainly doesn't have gills . . .

cheers

Chris

Hi Chris, the reference to the gill like features was because, in an earlier post regarding this one, someone had said it was probably an old specimen of Hypoxlon sp; i reposted this because i since found pictures of Datronia mollis ,which my example seems to resemble,

the hypoxylon, as you say does not have gills,which is why i thought that this was something other than Hypoxylon sp,
and although it does not look like any "normal" Datronia mollis, i cannot find anything similar to it other than Datronia mollis,

Brian.

[Chris Yeates]

hi

ah, that all makes sense . . . Datronia is as I say quite variable, so 'normal' can be quite unusual (if you know what I mean)

cheers

C

[KeenTeen17]

Most of my Scarlet Elf Cups from today were on sticks.

Unfortunately my sister forgot to take manual focus off before taking the photograph

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

Unfortunately my sister forgot to take manual focus off before taking the photograph

Looks perfect to me

Well done KT

John

[Gerel]

Not sure if there's much hope with this one, as I sort of suspect that it could be a very decayed anything. It was growing on a willow stick, mostly under the bark and pushing out from there. Soft spongy texture, in fact it was more reminiscent of a sea sponge than a fungus.



Steve