Fungi Afloat

Morchella · #1 (**permalink**) 16-01-2009, 09:01 PM

Spotted this log floating down the Thames last weekend.

Wasn't going to wade in for further examination, but look like Ganodermas to me - possibly upside down?

mollisia · #2 (**permalink**) 16-01-2009, 09:05 PM

Hi,

I would say it's Phellinus igniarius.

Nice finding for those, who collect distribution data: This one gives a lot of points in the distribution map during the next weeks :-))

best regards,
Andreas

Morchella · #3 (**permalink**) 16-01-2009, 10:07 PM

Thanks Mollisia

That would be a new one for me

KeenTeen17 · #4 (**permalink**) 17-01-2009, 06:07 PM

thats a great find!

I would have mistaken then for ganodermas as well

I once saw trametes versicolor on a afloat stick but this was in a bog.

mollisia · #5 (**permalink**) 17-01-2009, 08:16 PM

Hallo,

the fruitbodies are too thick for Ganoderma applanatum.
It is very typical for Phellinus igniarius and also the big and thick white margin contrasting to the blackishgrey rest of the cap is typical. It may of course also be Ph. trivialis, if this can be separated at all. If you google for pictures of those two, you will find several very similar fotos. Those Phallinus, like Fomitopsis pinicola, are quite variable depending on the growth state they are at the very moment of the picture.

And please remember, that are only "determinations" after more or less clear fotos. So just see those as suggestion with a certain chance to be correct ...

best regards,
Andreas

Andy Overall · #6 (**permalink**) 18-01-2009, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hallo,

the fruitbodies are too thick for Ganoderma applanatum.
It is very typical for Phellinus igniarius and also the big and thick white margin contrasting to the blackishgrey rest of the cap is typical. It may of course also be Ph. trivialis, if this can be separated at all. If you google for pictures of those two, you will find several very similar fotos. Those Phallinus, like Fomitopsis pinicola, are quite variable depending on the growth state they are at the very moment of the picture.

And please remember, that are only "determinations" after more or less clear fotos. So just see those as suggestion with a certain chance to be correct ...

best regards,
Andreas

I'm pleased that you wrote that last sentence Andreas, as to ID those bracket fungi from a photo taken from some distance is really sticking your neck out. I have seen immature G. australe looking like this, so would be really unsure about this being P. igniarius without a closer look.

Andy