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03-05-2010, 11:10 PM
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| | | Smoky Bracket fungi?
I saw this today on an old log by the river. I think it might be Bjerkandera adusta, but I am a newbie so I'm sure I'm wrong.
It was ranging from 10-40cms across. Unfortunately I didn't get the underdside but I did get a nice cross section where one of them had broken. No noticable smell either.   |
03-05-2010, 11:44 PM
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| | | Re: Smoky Bracket fungi?
hi
just look at that cinnamon-coloured spore deposit beneath your fungus . . .
it's a Ganoderma species - pm me a leaf with that spore deposit on it and I could tell you which species (I would suspect G. applanatum, as the tree appears to be dead / fallen over - but don't quote me!)
not quite sure where Bjerkandera came from I must admit 
best wishes
Chris
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03-05-2010, 11:59 PM
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| | | Re: Smoky Bracket fungi?
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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates  hi
just look at that cinnamon-coloured spore deposit beneath your fungus . . .
it's a Ganoderma species - pm me a leaf with that spore deposit on it and I could tell you which species (I would suspect G. applanatum, as the tree appears to be dead / fallen over - but don't quote me!)
not quite sure where Bjerkandera came from I must admit
best wishes
Chris | I didn't notice that, doh.
The top looks like it has rings on it and it lookedmost like the photo of the smoky bracket in my book. I only have a photo of 1 Ganoderma australe in the book, and it's not like the one in the photo. Think I need a new book  Are there any you would recomend to me? Thanks BTW  |
04-05-2010, 01:57 AM
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| | | Re: Smoky Bracket fungi?
hi
the problem is that fungi can be so variable in their appearance that no amount of looking at books or pictures can make up for years of field experience
when many of us were starting out such things as WAB wouldn't have been even dreamt of - so keep posting and we'll try to help; at some stage one has to make the jump into microscopy to take the study a stage further, but that is down to the individual (and it does take up a lot of time, effort and frustration )
Daliwch ati!
Chris
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04-05-2010, 10:15 PM
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| | | Re: Smoky Bracket fungi?
Diolch yn fawr.
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