Anyone name this fungi?

[ldevaney]

Excuse my poor knowledge of Fungi, my interest is photography. I have looked in a couple of fungi books and cannot accurately name this fungi. Can you help from the photograph?

[Ditiola]

Hi
I think you have a photograph of Honey fungus (Armillaria)

Peter

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by ldevaney

Excuse my poor knowledge of Fungi, my interest is photography. I have looked in a couple of fungi books and cannot accurately name this fungi. Can you help from the photograph?

Try Pholiota, pos P. squarrosa

Best

Andy

[ldevaney]

Many thanks for your help, I think looking closer at my origianal image which I can get more detail from than the small file attached to my thread that I will go with Honey fungus. Probably the tabascens due to the lack of a ring. Lucky for the tree it was on.

[Leif]

It's certainly not A. tabescens which would not have a scaly cap and stem. I think it is most probably Pholiota squarrosa.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by ldevaney

Excuse my poor knowledge of Fungi, my interest is photography. I have looked in a couple of fungi books and cannot accurately name this fungi.

hi and welcome to WAB . . . . sorry to be a bore but it's a fungus - I know it's confusing because there appears to be lots of things going on here but it's just a lot of fruitbodies from a single organism - like brambles on a bush . . .

oh - and I agree with Pholiota squarrosa

cheers

Chris

[lipase]

nice photograph,
anyone got any tips on how to distguish between P. squarrosa and Armillaria species?

Jack

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by lipase

nice photograph,
anyone got any tips on how to distguish between P. squarrosa and Armillaria species?

Jack

although it doesn't definitely identify either, spore print colour would separate the genera - brown in Pholiota and colourless (therefore appearing white en masse) for Armillaria

Chris

[ldevaney]

Originally Posted by Leif

It's certainly not A. tabescens which would not have a scaly cap and stem. I think it is most probably Pholiota squarrosa.

Leif, the problem I have with the identity as a Squarrosa is that the colour of the squarrosa on your web site is quite pale and this definitely had more colour in the cap. Thanks all the same

PS I am in awe of the quality of the images on your web site. I thought that mine were good until I looked at your web site now I know that mine are just OK

[treecreeper]

Every Pholiota squarrosa I have seen has had the scales standing up from the surface, reflected in the English name 'shaggy scalycap'. On this photo the scales look adpressed.