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19-06-2011, 08:32 AM
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I found this strange growth in my rotting log pile yesterday and its got me beat.   
I thought it a slimemould at first, some branched stemonitis perhaps or arcyria, but now not sure - it doesnt seem right.
Lots of spores shook off when it was picked up.
It seems to largely radiate out from the birch woodwart and sticking up too, like coral, but I notice it seems to have green moss-like fronds too.
Is it a mould like botrytis type, colonising some mossy growth , as its been wet, warm and dark in the log pile?
Or is at a slime, or what!?   
Oh and finally, any ideas on this Mollisia?
url=http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/archive/showphoto.php?photo=164789]  [/url]
Thanks a lot, grateful for any help/steer.
Cheers
Ken
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19-06-2011, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by diggleken  I found this strange growth in my rotting log pile yesterday and its got me beat.
I thought it a slimemould at first, some branched stemonitis perhaps or arcyria, but now not sure - it doesnt seem right.
Lots of spores shook off when it was picked up.
It seems to largely radiate out from the birch woodwart and sticking up too, like coral, but I notice it seems to have green moss-like fronds too.
Is it a mould like botrytis type, colonising some mossy growth , as its been wet, warm and dark in the log pile?
Or is at a slime, or what!?
Cheers
Ken | hi Ken
I think this might answer your question  images of Hypoxylon howeanum
Cheers
Chris
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19-06-2011, 02:41 PM
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Ah!
Ahem.
Thanks a lot Chris...................... 
Cheers
Ken
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19-06-2011, 08:46 PM
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| | | Re: Most peculiar mould ?
I knew this had appeared on the forum before . . .
see: Pick up sticks
and several posts below it
Chris
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20-06-2011, 08:30 AM
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| | | Re: Most peculiar mould ?
Hi Chris,
Most interesting stuff - this link also goes back to a thread when Andreas , you and Melanie plus others of course got involved with a similar request from John. http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...nomycetes.html
The upshot seems to be that its the anamorphic state of the Hypoxylon, but similar to Nodulisporium umbrinum which may thus be the same thing.
Glad its not just me not knowing this one. 
Cheers
Ken
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