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Post by rowanberry on Dec 13, 2019 20:13:52 GMT
Those little ones are quite magical looking, Ian!
I've not been having much luck fungi-spotting recently... today I nearly trod on what appeared to be a tiny bracket fungus growing out of the end of a branch. It was smaller than a 5p coin.
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Post by aeshna5 on Dec 22, 2019 6:00:23 GMT
Yesterday a good number of Oyster Mushrooms on a fallen Horse Chestnut trunk in an Ealing Park, seen on the monthly bird walk.
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Post by rowanberry on Dec 23, 2019 19:39:50 GMT
We went into our local woods yesterday, and I saw these bright orange bracket fungi growing on a rotting log. They really showed up well against the dark wood- almost irridescent.
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Post by aeshna5 on Dec 24, 2019 5:56:27 GMT
Lovely. Looks like Stereum hirsutum to me, but I'm far from an expert on fungi!
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Post by rowanberry on Dec 29, 2019 23:16:22 GMT
Neither am I! I just photograph them and hope for someone to come along and tell me what they are.  |
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Post by rowanberry on Jan 2, 2020 16:06:05 GMT
Are these also bracket fungus? Not sure, because I didn't think brackets have gills... if mushrooms these were looking the worse for wear- I'm not sure if it's because they are deteriorating, but they appeared to have sawdust scattered across them- or is it simply wet spores?
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Post by rowanberry on Feb 6, 2020 21:41:40 GMT
One of the trees in our garden died last summer, and recently these have started appearing on the undersides of the larger branches.
Not sure if they are technically bracket fungus or not? similar in appearance, but don't attach to the bark in the same way... they're more like caps stuck on, and the squirrels dislodge them now and again.
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Post by rowanberry on Mar 20, 2020 19:32:29 GMT
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Post by ianr on Mar 21, 2020 6:28:43 GMT
It's a slime mold of sorts ian |
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Post by aeshna5 on Mar 21, 2020 11:43:19 GMT
I thought slime mould too, possibly Mucilago?
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Post by rowanberry on Mar 21, 2020 20:33:16 GMT
Thanks, Ian and Aeshna!
Some of the exact same sort of fungus has appeared on a stump out in the garden... I'll try and get a photo of it tomorrow.
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Post by ianr on Mar 26, 2020 10:51:42 GMT
Some sort of honey fungus here growing on what's left of an oak tree the council saw fit to take down a few years back. I turned up home one day and it was half down when I ask the guys what the crack was he said it was rotten, I watched as the rest came down it looked solid all the way through to me. Sodding council no notice of intent just cut it down. Aside from the acorns bouncing off the car roofs and the odd twig dropping off nothing a bit of TLC couldn't have sorted  It would have had about a four foot diameter still there's two more left in the walk. 'slight rant over' ian  honey fungus by ian robinson, on Flickr |
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Post by rowanberry on Mar 26, 2020 21:33:01 GMT
That is a real shame about the oak, (several years ago our council cut a cherry tree down that just a few months before had flowered beautifully.)
It's a lovely clump of honey fungus, though- it looks more like a pile of golden conkers than mushrooms.
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Post by NellyDee on Mar 28, 2020 16:24:00 GMT
Looking at this fungi growing in a hollow of a tree, it looks to me like Turkey tails but i am sure it is not, maybe there are two types of fungi here - any ideas?  Tree with hollow growing fungi by Helen Skelton, on Flickr |
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Post by ianr on Apr 25, 2020 10:07:09 GMT
Walking through the woods and noticed on the old dead pine with the bees nest what looked like soot it feels like chimney soot very light powdery but not smelly, there's balls of it all round the tree and the odd bit of slime mold too. I've not seen it before but I'm guessing it'll be called sooty mold If you look close you can see the filaments spreading out. The clumps range from an inch to 6 inch diameter ian  sooty mold by ian robinson, on Flickr |
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