Anyone else photographing fungi?

wonderful Geoff special 2

Had a short walk today to some woods at St Donat Castle just outside where I live in South Wales, interesting place, was the mansion of a playboy, but is now a World College -http://www.castlewales.com/donats.html

Not a lot about but found this - Velvet Shank, Flammulina velutipes, I believe.

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Originally Posted by vaez

very nice series my lovely 3

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It is always encouraging to see that other people also enjoy these specialist threads.

Got a few things wrong with sufficient areas of sharp focus and other problems today but managed a few interesting subjects - which I still have to process and identify.

I didn't notice at the time that this Many-zoned Polypore was covered in old spider webbing. And the alternative angle was slightly lacking in overall sharpness.

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Also, some form of encrusting fungus.

http://i61.tinypic.com/1zc37ux.jpg

I've sent this on to a fungi forum for double checking but at the moment I'm thinking about Lycoperdon pyriforme.

Yet another totally different looking species.

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http://i57.tinypic.com/mw88br.jpg

Marlunn - that's an awesome photo. I love in North Western Pennsylvania and I've never seen clusters like that over here.

Geoff - those are great also.

Thanks Gary, appreciated.

Nice shots Geoff, would agree with you on the ID

Thanks. The Lycoperdon 'stem' seems a bit on the long side and it is growing on a live, but dormant for the winter, elder not rotten wood which was a bit confusing; and I'm only just getting into fungi identification. They do make interesting alternative subjects for the period when most insects are in temporary decline.

hmm, other option is L perlatum. My ref book has them with 'tapering sharply below into markedly elongated stout, stem-like base'
They are common and widespread and on rotting wood, Elder tends to attract these types of fungi on the surface of the bark if it is heavily mossed over, but the drawing shows them as more 'spotted' than shown in your photo, I would go with the first as most likely without a speciment to do a spore check on :)

They are great alternatives at this time of year - they dont run, hop, fly away and often you get a few bugs on them as a bonus !

Looks like rusty steel but I assume this is some sort of encrusting fungus. Can't offer any identification at the moment though. :rolleyes:

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After doing some more research, this might be Hymenochaete rubiginosa.

Looking like a group of flying saucers, I assume these are probably Birch Polypores (Piptoporus betulinus)

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Although they do seem a bit excessively knobbly on top.

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Geoff, given the surface of birch polypore is smooth I was thinking more Inonotus radiatus - alder bracket ? but that tends to be on standing dead wood and overlapping so not sure.

one i took a couple of weeks ago, dont think i have shown it before

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single Porcelain fungi - Oudemansiella mucida, lives up to its name slippery and wet, but it was raining :)
trying to get the surface and the stem and gills in one shot on the side of a tree at knee height !

Isn't the Alder Bracket rather uncommon and a bit northern? I'm seeking advice from a fungi forum.

But I think this large fungus (9 inches across) looks better, although somewhat distinctively edged.

http://i59.tinypic.com/11t1pqf.jpg

And a little bit of Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica) just starting to appear.

http://i57.tinypic.com/2rf7sqv.jpg

Will be interesting with what they come back with
Love the edging on your latest one :)

OK, now have confirmation on the 'flying saucers'. And yes, I was right to question my original thinking about identification.

Blushing Bracket - Daedaleopsis confragosa. Apparently the underside with turn reddish if you gently rub it.

splendid,thanks for posting that, hmm need to check a few of mine then :)

will have to try the rubbing test next time

Wet weather is upon us and better than usual. These little guys just popped up on an old stump just outside mu front door:)


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oops duplicate post.