Unknown fungus found in flower bed

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Dear arimmer,

do you by chance have a cedar tree nearby?

best regards,
Andreas

indeed - I think that "(exotic) conifer next door" might be significant . . .

Chris

[mollisia]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

indeed - I think that "(exotic) conifer next door" might be significant . . .

Chris

AAARRGGHHHH - I didn't even notice that he wrote that already. I was just wondering about the size of the cups and the time of the year. Both not totally excluding Geopora arenosa/arenicola, but way more better fitting to Geopora sumneriana.

By the way, on an exhibition we once had a visitor trying to describe a fungus growing in spring in his garden. He said, that it looks like te half of an Kinder Egg (you know, those chocolade eggs with toys inside ...). I asked him whether he possibly has found those under a cedar. He was quite surprised indeed .....
It was Geopora sumneriana in appr. 200 fruitbodies, as I could verify next spring then.

best regards,
Andreas

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by mollisia

(you know, those chocolade eggs with toys inside ...). . .

well it is Easter

Chris

[arimmer]

I think the tree may indeed be a cedar - will have to ask the neighbour for confirmation but it certainly looks similar to the ones in my gardening book.

Late last week when it got wet the one photographed in situ opened into a cup shape, as did half a dozen or so others nearby (didn't manage to get a photo tho') - all sort of pale to mid brown inside, but now all looking quite dark brown.

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

I would definitely recommend monitoring its progress and collecting and drying a voucher specimen for later study'

How would I go about doing that?

[arimmer]

Just in case anyone was still curious I have confirmation from the neighbour that the tree is indeed a cedar (...atlantica glauca I think they said).

[mollisia]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Yeates
I would definitely recommend monitoring its progress and collecting and drying a voucher specimen for later study'
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Originally Posted by arimmer

How would I go about doing that?

Hello,

just pick some of the cups and let them dry. They are quite thin, so they should dry without a heater or something like that. Just be sure, that they don't get wet again during the night, they have to dry in one way without getting moist inbetween. When they are really dry they are quite hard and cannot be bent anymore. Then you can put them in a paper envelope.
What then to do? Best send them to Chris for determination and he will send it perhaps to Kew.

best regards,
Andreas

[Lone Forager]

Originally Posted by arimmer

Here are the pictures I took yesteday - two of one I didn't disturb when weeding (or not much anyway, it did have a little soil inside it but that's all) and one of one which got dug up. I put a fair bit of detail in the descriptions if you can see that.

I think that photo number 1 might be a dead parrot.