Small soft bracket

waxcap · #1 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 03:56 PM

Hi,

Is anyone familiar with this.

I found it on rotting Birch. It was around 3cm across. Very floppy. I've been looking at Oysterlings and Schizophyllum but I can't pin it down.

I also found this on grazed grassland in the New Forest between gorse. The caps were under a cm across and there was what appeared to be algae slime on the ground at the base.

Thanks

Dave

Chris Yeates · #2 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by waxcap

Hi,

Is anyone familiar with this.

I found it on rotting Birch. It was around 3cm across. Very floppy. I've been looking at Oysterlings and Schizophyllum but I can't pin it down.

I also found this on grazed grassland in the New Forest between gorse. The caps were under a cm across and there was what appeared to be algae slime on the ground at the base.

Thanks

Dave

hi

I'd need to see a bit more of the top one to hazard an opinion (it's not Schizophyllum, mind)

could the bottom one have been on wood? It looks suspiciously like Flammulina velutipes

Chris

waxcap · #3 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 06:40 PM

Thanks Chris.

There aren't any trees around now but the gorse is often cut and the stumps/roots are left to rot in the ground.

I did think it might be a Collybia. Now I've had a look at Flammulina velutipes it has all of the features, there's even some slight red spotting on the stem which I've seen on images in the Gallery.

Now I know what this is as well. It was 200yards away so I didn't connect it.

I'll try and get back to the bracket.

Dave

fairplay · #4 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 07:01 PM

Is there a colour cast to the first image ? Wondering if it could be Pleurotus pulmonarius ?

Neil.

waxcap · #5 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 07:23 PM

Hi Neil,

now you mention it.... It was in deep shadow and needed a long exposure. Thinking back it was more grey and there seems to be an orange/pink cast to my picture compared to the original.

Dave

ashgale · #6 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 07:27 PM

how about Panellus stipticus for no1 ?
it appears to have the typical wrinkled cap of that species ?

ashgale.

fairplay · #7 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 07:31 PM

I cannot figure out what has happened to the cap surface as the broken up 'lumpy' ? surface is wrong for both suggestions.

Neil.

waxcap · #8 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 07:32 PM

Hi Ashgale,

I think you are spot on there. All of the images I've just looked at for Panellus stipticus were the spiiting image of what I remember.

There's an image here where the cap looks similar.

Thanks.

Dave

fairplay · #9 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 07:44 PM

Hmmm... must admit the cap surface is very similar, but oi 'ain't convinced. (until Ken or Chris say different

)

Neil.

ashgale · #10 (**permalink**) 13-11-2011, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by fairplay

Hmmm... must admit the cap surface is very similar, but oi 'ain't convinced. (until Ken or Chris say different

)

Neil.

i must say that the colour of Daves specimen is a bit on the orangey side, but this could be down to camera and low light conditions?
the other image Dave posted is more like the ones i have found, colour wise (mostly on old birch too, as Daves specimen)

ashgale.