Help with this Fungi puzzle needed please!

[solus]

Originally Posted by fairplay

It's all your fault Solus

Neil.

Just a suggestion! I very rarely have any idea, so don't offer many suggestions on these "what is it?" threads. As it is, I have only ever seen fresh specimens of Lentinus tigrinus (see photos in the Gallery - all of which appear to be mine , so nothing to compare with on here) but Jean's photo, while clearly of old and tatty versions (of whatever!), did remind me of them. It was the bit about "right at the side of the River Wye" that made me think of L tigrinus: the ones (only ones!) I have seen have been on willow in a very wet (sometimes underwater) area of the flood meadows beside the old Coombe Hill Canal near Gloucester. The boardwalk to one of the hides crosses this soggy wooded area and in recent springs I have seen this fungus there regularly.

Without seeing t'other side I suppose we may never know....

Edit: As regards size, I'm pretty sure some of the Gloucestershire ones were bigger than 7cm across!

[dickie'sbird]

Hi All,

Well I've had a good sort through my 'awful' failures again and found these. I'm not sure if I've done the wrong thing by marking the fungi near to the riverside...apologises to WAB if I have. I didn't look on the underside sorry!...and as a newbie, I was practicing using my camera to take shots of the stump ...and dreadful ones at that





Best I can do...maybe we will never know...oh what numbtie I am!

Jean

[fairplay]

Jean,

I'm not quite sure when you say "I'm not sure if I've done the wrong thing by marking the fungi near to the riverside..."
Do you mean you mistakenly thought they were near the water/riverside when you found them ? If that is the case, that would probably mean they were old Polypores.

It would have been nice to have a new record of L.tigrinus, but it ain't the end of the world.

Neil.

[ashgale]

I think you may have two species here,

the ones in the later pictures, with the green algae on, look like they could be Trametes gibbosa, especially given the frass from beetle activity on some of the lower ones,

as for the scaly ones, I think Lancashire lad has got this right, with Dryads saddle,

ashgale,

[dickie'sbird]

Originally Posted by fairplay

Jean,

I'm not quite sure when you say "I'm not sure if I've done the wrong thing by marking the fungi near to the riverside..."
Do you mean you mistakenly thought they were near the water/riverside when you found them ? If that is the case, that would probably mean they were old Polypores.

It would have been nice to have a new record of L.tigrinus, but it ain't the end of the world.

Neil.

LOL...Hi Neil, I was refering to the black circles I'd drawn around the fungi on the recent photo to show it's position re: the river.

Sorry if I've caused any confusion

Regards, jean

[fairplay]

Silly me !

By the way, as just pointed out, the other species present are Trametes gibbosa.

Neil.

[dickie'sbird]

Many thanks to you all for commenting on this 'puzzle' and for all the information received, all helpful stuff for the future.

I think the only thing left to solve this will be to try and find the spot by the river re: last years photos. Hopefully by then, things will have reappeared and I can get a conclusive answer...I'll keep you all posted as to what I find!

With best regards to everyone,
Jean