Wierd fungi and a wierder bracket!

[hamadryad]

found these today, new to me, the first is a frond like fungus on newly fallen beech, been down this summer.

the second is NOT hispidus but sulphor yellow spores and on ash, this is beyond me, I am pretty famialar with brackets but this is a new one to me in 20 years!

if the last one is hispidus it is nothing like any I have found before? it was VERY heavy and moist and slightley fibrous above the tube layer a texture no discimilar to fistulina?

[Chris Yeates]

hi

I think what you are seeing here is one of the fungi imperfecti or mitosporic fungi in this instance what used to be called a 'coelomycete'

it's the imperfect state of an ascomycete - sticking my neck out I would suggest that it's the Cystospora anamorphic state of Valsa ambiens a common fungus on dead boughs, twigs etc

sometimes if the conditions are right when you get some of these fellows out of a damp collecting tin into warm indoors you can see the 'spores' oozing out at quite a rate - it's like watching a worm crawling out of the bark (and can be a bit alarming if you're watching down a dissecting microscope and it starts off!)

the 'spores' - technically conidia - are tiny and in the case of Cytospora shaped like curved sausages

the bracket is a tad too big for my mycological activities at the moment

cheers

Chris

[hamadryad]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

hi

I think what you are seeing here is one of the fungi imperfecti or mitosporic fungi in this instance what used to be called a 'coelomycete'

it's the imperfect state of an ascomycete - sticking my neck out I would suggest that it's the Cystospora anamorphic state of Valsa ambiens a common fungus on dead boughs, twigs etc

sometimes if the conditions are right when you get some of these fellows out of a damp collecting tin into warm indoors you can see the 'spores' oozing out at quite a rate - it's like watching a worm crawling out of the bark (and can be a bit alarming if you're watching down a dissecting microscope and it starts off!)

the 'spores' - technically conidia - are tiny and in the case of Cytospora shaped like curved sausages

the bracket is a tad too big for my mycological activities at the moment

cheers

Chris

jesus chris you know your bunions! thanks, i am certain this old fagus is going to give up plenty of mycological fodder over the next three years or so, i shall record those that emerge as a record. I have been recording all the old beeches in various states of progress from early fracture in living to thier fall and eventual complete breakdown. it is a wonderful place, it is getting hard to get to some of the older falls as the succsesion growth has begun in earnest and is thick as tropical jungle!

you never know i might even see an ascotremella faginea on this tree! lmao