arborial fungi

[flaxton]

Anyone point me in the right direction for this group of cream/yellow fruitbodies (I only called them that because I wanted to avoid being told off by Chris for not knowing when a fungus becomes fungi) Growing at the base of what I think was a poplar. I will get round to the microscope later but until then


Mal

Ps the Coprinus in the photo fitted with C micaceus in everything other than size the cap was 60+mm tall.

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Anyone point me in the right direction for this group of cream/yellow fruitbodies (I only called them that because I wanted to avoid being told off by Chris for not knowing when a fungus becomes fungi) Growing at the base of what I think was a poplar. I will get round to the microscope later but until then


Mal

Ps the Coprinus in the photo fitted with C micaceus in everything other than size the cap was 60+mm tall.

Pholiota or should I say Fooliota

john

[Ken Burgess]

John is correct with Pholiota and I assume it is Pholiota gummosa, which can turn very pale as it matures, but usually retains some hint of yellowish to greenish tones.

Ken

[Ken Burgess]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Anyone point me in the right direction for this group of cream/yellow fruitbodies (I only called them that because I wanted to avoid being told off by Chris for not knowing when a fungus becomes fungi)

I should point out (before Chris does) that to avoid opprobrium you should also put the term 'fruiting bodies' in inverted commas, because it is technically incorrect, or use another term such as sporocarp or basidiocarp.

Ken

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Ken Burgess

I should point out (before Chris does) that to avoid opprobrium you should also put the term 'fruiting bodies' in inverted commas, because it is technically incorrect, or use another term such as sporocarp or basidiocarp.

Ken

I use fruiting bodies myself as you will see from time to time - there are limits to even my pedantry - it's just the plural thing gets to me - no-one would dream of asking "is this a hippopotami?"

it also irks me when I hear public school educated government ministers rubbishing teachers and using phrases like "this phenomena"

I'm outta here . . .

and yes that is surely Pholiota gummosa (which, incidentally, is the same as the P. ochrochlora depicted in the first edition of the Roger Phillips book - don't know if that is corrected in later editions . . . )

Chris

[flaxton]

Thanks for that guys.
Not a species I have seen before and although it was one of the ones I considered honest I could find no chrysocystidia on the gill edge so rejected it(even with the newly found disclosing stain). Having been told what it is I went back to the books and there are not supposed to be any chryso cheiliocystidia but I very soon found plenty of chryso pleurocystidia. A little knowledge etc

Mal

[flaxton]

Just to try and amend the faux pas on the title.

Mal

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Anyone point me in the right direction for this group of cream/yellow fruitbodies (I only called them that because I wanted to avoid being told off by Chris for not knowing when a fungus becomes fungi) Growing at the base of what I think was a poplar. I will get round to the microscope later but until then


Mal

Ps the Coprinus in the photo fitted with C micaceus in everything other than size the cap was 60+mm tall.

You'd have been ok as you did show two different funguses in the photo. Couldn't see the hippopotamuses though ....

Melanie

[stickman]

Hi all

Just to throw a spanner in the works, how about Pholiota alnicolor?

Cheers,
Nick

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

You'd have been ok as you did show two different funguses in the photo. Couldn't see the hippopotamuses though ....

Melanie

I have no trouble with "funguses" (as long as two or more different ones are involved)

let us not forget the trailblazing James Bolton: An history of funguses, growing about Halifax. (Book, 1788) [WorldCat.org]

1788-91 I ask you (and note where published . . . . )

C