two fungi in pine/tamarisk

diggleken · #1 (**permalink**) 04-10-2009, 08:56 PM

grateful for help with these two please
1 on tamarisk, (in greece, sorry, but should be same as ours?) - Trametes gibbosa?)

2 two specimens found in dry aleppo pine woods - maybe , tentatively chalciporus piperatus?

not much else besides the pics I'm afraid -had to sunbathe first, so these were just grabbed shots.
Cheers
Ken

fairplay · #2 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009, 12:33 AM

Hi Ken,

Purely guessing, I would come up with the same as you for 1 & 2.

Neil.

diggleken · #3 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009, 08:05 AM

Thanks Neil,
Great to have a second opinion!
Trametes seems clear, the bolete is more guesswork maybe, but can we both be wrong? (of course we can!)

Cheers
Ken

flaxton · #4 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by diggleken

Thanks Neil,
Great to have a second opinion!
Trametes seems clear, the bolete is more guesswork maybe, but can we both be wrong? (of course we can!)

Cheers
Ken

Hi guys
You were right

to say you are both wrong

Chalciporus piperatus is usually not as solid as your find and it has a bright yellow mycelium unlike your fruitbody. It is a Suillus and might be collinitus.

Mal

fairplay · #5 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009, 11:17 PM

B.. b.. but I was led astray Mal, and I was desperate to make friends, and, and, ..... oh all right then, I was too hasty.

Neil.

Chris Yeates · #6 (**permalink**) 05-10-2009, 11:52 PM

I suspect both are something else I'm afraid . . . the Mediterranean mycoflora is by and large rather unlike ours, so although one might find species close to those we find in this country they are probably different

the bolete could be a rather dried-out / nibbled Suillus; and the bracket may well be a tamarisk specialist . . .

Chris

fairplay · #7 (**permalink**) 06-10-2009, 06:11 AM

(Quickly changes subject in case Chris spots another slip up.)

That's rather a big Tamarisk that bracket is growing on Ken, I suppose probably being native to Greece, they would grow a lot bigger there.
Is that a cuckoo I can hear in the background ?

Neil.

diggleken · #8 (**permalink**) 06-10-2009, 09:04 AM

He he, well done, yep, great spotted cuckoo.............................

Oh well, I did consider Suillus too, but the flesh yellow throughout confused me - maybe its the Aleppo Pine bolete, closely related to the Larch bolete..... anyone for retsina?
Cheers all
Ken