Mushrooms ID please

Mercadante · #1 (**permalink**) 27-06-2009, 03:20 PM

We have all these mushrooms growing on an old log. (I don't what kind of tree the log is from, but there are sycamores and elms around it.) Is it possible to identify them from this picture?

flaxton · #2 (**permalink**) 27-06-2009, 03:38 PM

Hi
We have just had long discussions about this (or similar

) fungi recently with a unresolved outcome. The ridges on the stem make this Pleurotus cornucopiae.

Mal

FungiJohn · #3 (**permalink**) 27-06-2009, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by flaxton

Hi
We have just had long discussions about this (or similar

) fungi recently with a unresolved outcome. The ridges on the stem make this Pleurotus cornucopiae.

Mal

I'd agree with Pleurotus cornucopiae Mal

Large tufts, fused stem, white decurrent gills, Cap convex to a shallow funnel, whitish to pale brown ... The Jiz is right!

John

Mercadante · #4 (**permalink**) 27-06-2009, 05:25 PM

Thank you very much!

Andy Overall · #5 (**permalink**) 28-06-2009, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Mercadante

We have all these mushrooms growing on an old log. (I don't what kind of tree the log is from, but there are sycamores and elms around it.) Is it possible to identify them from this picture?

I would wholeheartedly agree with P. cornucopiae and this is timely given the recent discussion. This picture shows all of the inherent characteristics of P. cornucopiae, which I felt were lacking on the previous, debated collection. This collection would have been growing from the nearby Elm the favored host of P. cornucopiae.

Andy

snowdrop · #6 (**permalink**) 28-06-2009, 11:58 AM

Visiting the local cemetery with my granddaughter last weekend I spotted an old tree with very few leaves. High up on the trunk in close proximity were two large fungi.
I have little knowledge of the subject so I ask you bear with me as I try to explain what they looked like.

The lower of the two resembled the bowl used to catch the water of a 'sunface' water feature ( the type you put on a garden wall) and seemed to be growing out from inside the tree. It was greyish in colour.

The one above was large, white and looked all the world like a tomahawk fallen on its back. The end furthest from the tree grew skywards resembling the hatchet blade...which was attached to a long 'thick' handle, again growing outwards from inside the tree.

I had to stop my grandaughter smashing them to pieces with a stick she'd found..Ahh! Todays generation