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01-02-2010, 02:05 PM
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| | | Fungi found growing on Oak tree
I was out walking near Henley on Thames this weekend and I across these 2 fungi growing on an (I think) oak tree. They were polypores and one batch of them looked like they had very leathery brown tops and white undersides. The other looked completely different and I can really describe it, but I have a pic below. I'm very much into bushcraft and have spent a number of years identifing plants and berries etc, but now I would like to explore the world of fungi. The 2 pics are below...it would be great if you could identify them.  
Pic 2 identified as - Artist's Bracket
Last edited by davidmcg; 01-02-2010 at 02:31 PM.
Reason: Picture 2 identified
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01-02-2010, 02:44 PM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
David
Your first is Pleurotus ostreatus and although your second find might be Ganoderma applanatum The Artists Bracket I think it is more likely to be Ganoderma australe The Southern Bracket but only micrscopy would confirm.
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01-02-2010, 02:51 PM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
I was about to say exactly what Mal has just stated.
(Note the gill formation, ruling out polypore, in the topmost specimen of P.ostreatus)
Last edited by cybershot; 01-02-2010 at 03:00 PM.
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01-02-2010, 04:09 PM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
I wasn't, coz i wanted to start a good old argument by saying although the 3 Ganoderma's almost certainly have to be the same species, the top one looks like an old, tired, G.resinaceum to me (the lower 2 less so).
Perhaps Davidmcg could tell us if these brackets are here all year round or break up after winter and grow again late summer ?
Neil. |
03-02-2010, 04:21 PM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
Hello. Thank you all for your reply. I am unsure whether these brackets are there all year round. I've only seen them once. |
06-02-2010, 08:23 AM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
Certainly not on oak. Looks like sycamore. |
06-02-2010, 07:36 PM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
That will certainly screw things up if it's Sycamore 
but I'm stickin to me guns though !
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06-02-2010, 07:58 PM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
One percent of the Ganoderma recorded on Cate are associated with acer of some sort.
Mal |
06-02-2010, 10:57 PM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
Would agree about not being oak and does look like a sycamore but could also be a horse chestnut. |
07-02-2010, 01:24 AM
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| | | Re: Fungi ID?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil Dye  Would agree about not being oak and does look like a sycamore but could also be a horse chestnut. | Could be. Chestnut was my second option. | | | |
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