Todays finds

flaxton · #1 (**permalink**) 14-05-2009, 08:45 PM

While I am waiting for a yay or nay for my Heteromycophaga I will look for suggestions for the following finds.

I was in a mixed woodland today pine but also birch willow and oak

I came across this lot

which looks like Pellinus punctatus but thats rare.

This one under the peeled back piece of bark on a birch

This looks like a slime mould on the cut end of a conifer

It was about 6 inches across.
and finally
I think Skeletocutis amorpha

Thanks for the help

Mal

NickCantle · #2 (**permalink**) 14-05-2009, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by flaxton

Is that what I think it is? Black cushion, tawny/tan in colour...

flaxton · #3 (**permalink**) 14-05-2009, 09:06 PM

Nick
Not sure what you think it is

It was very thin probably only the thickness of the peeled back bark so not Dichomitus

Mal

NickCantle · #4 (**permalink**) 14-05-2009, 09:09 PM

Damn!

Nettle Runner · #5 (**permalink**) 15-05-2009, 08:28 AM

Mal
If No 1 was on Oak, then Hapalopilus nidulans is a possibility.
Les

flaxton · #6 (**permalink**) 15-05-2009, 10:50 AM

Hi Les
This didn't have rubbery consistancy of H. nidulans

Mal

flaxton · #7 (**permalink**) 15-05-2009, 09:23 PM

Has anyone out there got a book showing Phellinus punctatus spores?
These

are average 6 x 3.5mu

Thanks
Mal

jonnyblades · #8 (**permalink**) 15-05-2009, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by NickCantle

Is that what I think it is? Black cushion, tawny/tan in colour...

hi there, i found this very 'thing' growing on a european larch, i hadnt a clue what it was ( wish i had gotten a photo as roger the philips says its rare),
with my niavity i squashed my finger into it thinking it was some kind of mammal salvia! only to find out later it was some sort of fungi! very different

NickCantle · #9 (**permalink**) 15-05-2009, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jonnyblades

hi there, i found this very 'thing' growing on a european larch, i hadnt a clue what it was ( wish i had gotten a photo as roger the philips says its rare),
with my niavity i squashed my finger into it thinking it was some kind of mammal salvia! only to find out later it was some sort of fungi! very different

Hi Jonny,

I doubt that it would have been Dichomitus campestris as it grows exclusively on Deciduous trees. There are many other cushions similar though...

jonnyblades · #10 (**permalink**) 15-05-2009, 11:43 PM

Im just starting in my discovery of fungi, need to say i think its possiblly one of hardest groups to discover! thanks though for that,

you never learn unless you ask! or something like tht