Is This Dyer's Mazegill?

Lancashire Lad · #1 (**permalink**) 16-08-2009, 08:55 PM

Found today on a fallen & well rotting Larch trunk, are these Dyer's Mazegill - Phaeolus schweintzii?

Any confirmation/other much appreciated.

Regards
Mike.

Lancashire Lad · #2 (**permalink**) 17-08-2009, 12:59 PM

No takers on this one?

I would like to get an ID if at all possible - It does seem to resemble Phaeolus schweintzii in some of my books, and on some of the images I've found online.

However, it is sufficiently different in looks to leave me with reservations - but yet it is a very distinctive looking fungus.

cybershot · #3 (**permalink**) 17-08-2009, 01:29 PM

I find this in various locations in this vicinity on stumps and roots of conifers and I would say you're on a safe bet Mike. Tomentose when young, often with concentic orange zones and a dark to red-brown centre. The marginal zone of the more mature specimen is sufficiently sulphur yellow and the labarinthe-like pore surface pattern, bruising brown, matches the plate in FOS.

David

Lancashire Lad · #4 (**permalink**) 17-08-2009, 01:32 PM

Thanks David. - It was one of those where I was convinced when I took the photo, but then when I got home and started looking at other photos, I became more & more uncertain of whether I was correct.

Regards,
Mike.

hamadryad · #5 (**permalink**) 30-08-2009, 07:18 PM

This is Pheaolus, but dyers mazegill is the conifer maze gill, phealous is pores not maze gilled, I think there is much miss information in the txt books!

Ive been hunting dyers maze gill for a decade!

this is a loveley example of the Phaeolus .

cybershot · #6 (**permalink**) 30-08-2009, 07:34 PM

I think you'll find that Gloeophyllum sepiarium is designated Conifer Mazegill according to the BMS List of Recommended English Names of Fungi in the UK

Chris Yeates · #7 (**permalink**) 30-08-2009, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by cybershot

I think you'll find that Gloeophyllum sepiarium is designated Conifer Mazegill according to the BMS List of Recommended English Names of Fungi in the UK

I could start on one of my tirades about English names being more trouble than they are worth here - but I won't . . .

. . . . oh! I have

C

cybershot · #8 (**permalink**) 30-08-2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

I could start on one of my tirades about English names being more trouble than they are worth here - but I won't . . .

. . . . oh! I have

C

That's why it generally safer to stick to the Latin Names to avoid confusion, other than the on going shift in taxonomy, but our new friend seems to focus on the Common Names

NickCantle · #9 (**permalink**) 30-08-2009, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by hamadryad

This is Pheaolus, but dyers mazegill is the conifer maze gill, phealous is pores not maze gilled, I think there is much miss information in the txt books!.

Where did you find this information may I ask? I've just done a quick search on t'web and multiple reliable sources state that Dyer's Mazegill is in fact the common name for Phaeolus schweintzii.

Meta menardi · #10 (**permalink**) 30-08-2009, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by NickCantle

Where did you find this information may I ask? I've just done a quick search on t'web and multiple reliable sources state that Dyer's Mazegill is in fact the common name for Phaeolus schweintzii.

Thank you all the people who spent their time making up common names for things that didn't have them. You have made life so much more simple.