Please help identify these.

[crusader]

hi

Please can someone try to help me identify the following fungi, I was walking on Cannock chase and came across these and was wondering what type of mushrooms these are and if they are edible as you can see the one photo is a tiny tree stump with lots of tiny little fungi all over and the other picture is of a tree trunk with a big white fungi growing on the side of it? if you require further information then I will try to answer and questions. i am new to all this Mushroom hunting lol!

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by crusader

hi

Please can someone try to help me identify the following fungi, I was walking on Cannock chase and came across these and was wondering what type of mushrooms these are and if they are edible as you can see the one photo is a tiny tree stump with lots of tiny little fungi all over and the other picture is of a tree trunk with a big white fungi growing on the side of it? if you require further information then I will try to answer and questions. i am new to all this Mushroom hunting lol!

hi

and welcome to WAB

do you know what the tree the left hand one was on is? (sorry clumsy sentence!);if it's birch then the answer is straightforward . . . it doesn't look like silver birch,but could well be Betula pubescens

the right hand one is Trametes versicolor which has been given the vernacular name "turkey tail" - please don't tell anyone I've been using these newly-coined English names!

if you are a newbie then Help us to help you identify fungi
will be of use

but more to the point see: Is my fungus edible or psychotic requests
so any future posts including requests about edibility are not deleted by the mods!

(there is method in our madness - to paraphrase Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2 . . . )

cheers

Chris

[crusader]

hi i dont know alot about nature, lol that why i want to start finding these things out. i wouldbt have a clue what type of tree this is in the picture (sorry).

i will look through the links you provided and thank you very much for replying!

Crusader

[crusader]

how can i tell what type of tree it is?

[mollisia]

Hello crusador,

Originally Posted by crusader

how can i tell what type of tree it is?

that's pretty easy in this case: As the fungus is "Birch Polypore" (Piptoporus betulinus), which grows exclusively on birch, this tree is a birch

best regards,
Andreas

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hello crusador,



that's pretty easy in this case: As the fungus is "Birch Polypore" (Piptoporus betulinus), which grows exclusively on birch, this tree is a birch

best regards,
Andreas

Betula pubescens would you say?

[mollisia]

Hello Chris,

I will not lean myself that far out of the window Let's say Betula sp. - birch

best regards,
Andreas