macro fungi! help!

[hamadryad]

Found this a few weeks ago, way and I mean WAYYYY over and above my knowledge. it was an intersting find, a very large stump of fagus sylvatica (beech) riddled and soup like, multiple rotters, Lycoperdon pyriform, ganoderma pfiefferi, peziza granulosa and in amoungst the bark and all over the rotting gano bracket was these little black fungi.

any ideas as to an identity? thanks folks.

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by hamadryad

Found this a few weeks ago, way and I mean WAYYYY over and above my knowledge. it was an intersting find, a very large stump of fagus sylvatica (beech) riddled and soup like, multiple rotters, Lycoperdon pyriform, ganoderma pfiefferi, peziza granulosa and in amoungst the bark and all over the rotting gano bracket was these little black fungi.

any ideas as to an identity? thanks folks.

Hi hamadryad

Looks very much like Metatrichia floriformis

John

[hamadryad]

Thanks John, was the biege white mould a seperate entity or part and parcel? was a cloud of spore from this as i broke up the root plate bark

[Chris Yeates]

hi

it looks as though the Metatrichia is fruiting through a resupinate fungus (very like Coniophora puteana, I think)

cheers

Chris

PS good to see the spectacular (if not always 100% accurate . . . . arguably a little too much artistic licence, but whatever ) illustrations of Ernst Haeckel featured in your avatar

[hamadryad]

Thanks Chris, you are an unbelievable mine of info!

Do you remeber a while back i posted some orange threads exuding from a beech tree?

I observed this tree as i do and continue to, and discovered that those orange threads where most likely an asexual stage of bulgaria iquinans as fruit bodies came out of the thread points and i should and will post these images up later.

is B. iquinans known to have such a stage? I am as will you be certain of this when you see the images.