Stinkhorn and polyporous, confirmation please

[ohgreatstew]

Today was a good day, 3 different and new species for me, I think I have got them nailed, but would appreciate help......

Here is the stinkhorn, I think, although I can't actually find one that looks like this in any of my books.....


Next we have the laetipours sulphureus, I am pretty sure about this one, growing on Oak in mixed broard leaf woodland, and quite excited to find it as I have never seen one in the wild before....


and last is polyporus squamosus.... not sure what this was growing on as it was very dead, but in mixed broard leaf woodland.....quite pleased with the pictures of this...


eagerly awaiting your praise and reassurance...

Stewart

[Chris Yeates]

all tickety-boo as far as I can see

cheers

Chris

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by ohgreatstew

Today was a good day, 3 different and new species for me, I think I have got them nailed, but would appreciate help......

Here is the stinkhorn, I think, although I can't actually find one that looks like this in any of my books.....


eagerly awaiting your praise and reassurance...

Stewart

The stink should give that one away, you don't even need the books to confirm the appearance ... I don't think there are any others with quite that smell, (the Dog Stinkhorn has only a very faint whiff so you can safely put your nose up quite close to that). It even overpowers that currently emanating from my soggy walking boots .... .

The woods near me are full of stinkhorns right now. There were dozens in one small stand this evening, and they were present in every compartment I walked through. And the deer seem to have gone round eating the tops of quite a few, maybe that is why there are so many in the forest, the deer as well as the flies are spreading the spores. The stinkhorns together with the currently rather abundant Dog's Vomit Slime Mould are letting down the tone the woods ....

Melanie

[alge]

Stew you may not have seen a stinkhorn that looks like that in your guides as it has had the brown sludge(name eludes me) containing the spores licked, sucked or washed off so what you have there is a stink horn which is in a latter stage & will collapse and degrade over the next few hours/days. none of my pocket style guides have an example of this stage either but its the stage your most likely to find.

Alex

[Ditiola]

Try searching for Phalus impudicus in Google images, and you will finds lots of photos at different stages.

The spore containing green slime often seen at the top is called the Gleba. It is eaten by flies that have been attracted by the smell. To find this stage go out early in the morning when it’s raining and there are no flies about.

Peter

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

. . . the deer seem to have gone round eating the tops of quite a few, maybe that is why there are so many in the forest, the deer as well as the flies are spreading the spores . . . .
Melanie

I don't know if it is still the case but I remember hearing a while ago that no-one had ever succeeding in germinating Phallus spores, including trying to use those that had passed through flies; there must be some factor at work . . .

C

[Dorts]

The 'green slime' has a sweet taste!
I spent many years working with a natural history photographer, and whenever he read something about the edibility or otherwise of a fungi, he would try it on me. On this occasion, while photographing P. impudicus, he read that the slime was sweet to the taste and then suggested I try it. I did. It was!
Dorts.

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Dorts

The 'green slime' has a sweet taste!
I spent many years working with a natural history photographer, and whenever he read something about the edibility or otherwise of a fungi, he would try it on me. On this occasion, while photographing P. impudicus, he read that the slime was sweet to the taste and then suggested I try it. I did. It was!
Dorts.

Brave person! Rather you than me. You don't know where those flies' feet have been .....

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

I don't know if it is still the case but I remember hearing a while ago that no-one had ever succeeding in germinating Phallus spores, including trying to use those that had passed through flies; there must be some factor at work . . .

C

Interesting. Whatever it is, it must be very common in Wykeham Forest. Perhaps birds have to eat the flies that have eaten the spores .... Or maybe the flies have to visit something afterwards that is the catalyst ...

Melanie