UK Fungi

Hi Chris I would say definitely not Penicillium or similar as there are no penicillate structures and conidiogenesis is not terminal. One for ASCOFrance methinks - Walter Gams might be able to comment. Make sure you put "whale" into the thread title - that should attract attention! I did a flick thr...

Hello, well spotted! I think it is Stropharia squamosa, nowadays called Leratiomyces (or Stropholoma) squamosa. best regards, Andreas I still think this is old Armillaria , Andreas. Perhaps A. gallica as per: http://www.damyko.info/ForumA/files/120610_armillaria_gallica_161.jpg If it's L. squamosa ...

Hi Zaza top four : Schizophyllum commune * - not uncommonly found on silage bags these days - see: https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/schizophyllum-commune.php bottom four : old honey fungus, Armillaria sp. best wishes Chris * and one of the world's "sexiest" fungi :oops: see: https://botit.botany.w...

I'm happy to go with Andreas' opinion - should have had more confidence in my initial thoughts . . .

Thanks for going to that trouble, Bob. I'm happy that it is probably isn't my first suggestion, and am now seriously wondering about Auricularia mesenterica, young of course. If it is it should look more typical in a month or so . . . But it doesn't say Peltigera to me at all.

I'm not at all convinced by the Peltigera theory. The habitat seems unlikely and those are totally unlike any rhizines I have ever seen. Those are hairs (in the mycological sense), far too thin and separated to be rhizines - this is what I would expect for the latter: https://www.flickr.com/photos/t...

The bottom one - although one cannot see enough of the underside to be certain - looks to me like Daedalea quercina. As for the smaller brackets - very young Chondrostereum purpureum?
regards
Chris

Hello James
my money would be on Schizopora paradoxa which can look exactly like this. Compare with some online images, e.g. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drewniczk ... a1_(6).JPG.

best wishes
Chris

Nectria and associated genera form a very difficult area, now more is known about them. Ideally you need: to know whether the perithecia have been formed on a stroma (probably 'yes' in this case) measurements / descriptions of asci and ascopores a thin section through a perithecium a description of...

And from me - don't forget to use this excellent site throughout the year. Fungi don't just start to appear in autumn! 1542649076652blob.jpg.png (fungal Christmas tree culture plate): star : Talaromyces stipitatus branches : Aspergillus nidulan s ornaments : Penicillium marneffei trunk : Aspergillus...

Most funny is that Index fungorum lists BOTH taxa , Sutorius luridiformis and Neoboletus erythropus although both taxa definitely mean the same fungus (the one the picture shows). So, all is clear now, isn't it? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: best wishes, Andreas I am currently slowly writing up a mycota of Y...

The ring-zone obvious on both the fruit-bodies which show the full stem immediately rules out Laccaria.
At this time of year one would suspect Tubaria, but the gill attachment looks wrong - ah just seen Mike's comments. Perhaps Andreas will seal it