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Steph

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #25 on: 22 December, 2011, 11:39:26 pm »
That looks like a lactarius of some kind. Not got my book out at the moment, but the central dip is common in that genus. Not usually nice to eat. The gills you photographed, with their depth, would be a good hint of how a parasol looks if white.
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David Martin

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #26 on: 22 December, 2011, 11:55:26 pm »
Here are some. No idea what they are.


Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr


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Steph

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #27 on: 23 December, 2011, 12:04:50 am »
The first one is a very common birch tree bracket. Absolutely inedible. Will be hard in texture with an almost smooth underneath.
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David Martin

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #28 on: 23 December, 2011, 12:15:06 am »
The bottom one  (the top two are the same thing I think but are different examples) is on Oak IIRC.
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Steph

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #29 on: 23 December, 2011, 01:21:44 am »
I meant the top two...the bottom one looks like sulphur tuft.
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Salvatore

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #30 on: 23 December, 2011, 06:20:24 am »
A rather mature birch bracket I snapped a couple of years ago. I'll go and see if it's still there.


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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #31 on: 23 December, 2011, 09:49:05 pm »
I've no idea about fungus species but I'm admiring lots of great photos in this thread.
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Re: Fungi
« Reply #32 on: 25 December, 2011, 06:14:15 pm »
It's another great photo of piptoporus betulinus the birch polypore or birch bracket.

Salvatore

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #33 on: 29 December, 2011, 11:24:16 am »
Turkey tail on the end of a sawn-off branch



I don't know what these are




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Re: Fungi
« Reply #34 on: 14 January, 2012, 06:39:09 pm »
I came across these giants yesterday -  I measured the bottom one at about 55 cm at its widest point - the top one about 10cm wider.
Initial research suggests ganoderma applanatum - artist's conch. can anyone confirm or correct this?



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It had enveloped twigs


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Re: Fungi
« Reply #35 on: 14 January, 2012, 09:02:35 pm »
I think it might be Hoof fungus.

And the shiny one may be Velvet Shanks

MercuryKev

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #36 on: 14 January, 2012, 10:45:57 pm »
I'd say it was a horse's hoof fungus too.

Here are a couple of purple beauties that I found the other week:


Pingu

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #37 on: 09 April, 2012, 05:40:22 pm »

IMG_0246 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Riggers

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #38 on: 14 September, 2012, 11:12:20 am »
Know idea what these chaps are:
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Re: Fungi
« Reply #39 on: 14 September, 2012, 11:16:34 am »
Riggers, I think they are Sulphur Tufts.

Riggers

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #40 on: 14 September, 2012, 11:48:57 am »
Thank you. Noticed they're poisonous little blighters too.
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Salvatore

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #41 on: 12 October, 2012, 11:05:26 am »
It's that time of year again. Ideal conditions in the New Forest this week. Mild and damp.

















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Re: Fungi
« Reply #42 on: 12 October, 2012, 11:39:41 am »
Good pics!!
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Salvatore

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #43 on: 17 October, 2012, 07:59:51 pm »
In a wood not far from where I live, fallen and felled trees are left where they fall, so there is lots of dead wood where fungi flourish. This morning's snaps:











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Re: Fungi
« Reply #44 on: 21 October, 2012, 05:35:52 pm »

IMG_0895 by The Pingus, on Flickr

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #45 on: 21 October, 2012, 06:14:32 pm »
Some cheeky little fellows in a quiet corner of one of our sites:


2012-10-11 13.32.01 by andygates, on Flickr
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Salvatore

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #46 on: 22 October, 2012, 03:05:39 pm »

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #47 on: 22 October, 2012, 04:08:35 pm »
I can smell the damp woods just looking at these pics.
Can't wait to get a bit of woodland pottering done during half term.

MercuryKev

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Re: Fungi
« Reply #48 on: 22 October, 2012, 07:32:05 pm »
I had a wee forage after work and I came across this bad boy (and also a bag full of Penny Buns)


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Re: Fungi
« Reply #49 on: 22 October, 2012, 07:35:39 pm »
OMG!  If I show this to my Mario he will be so jealous.  It has been a bad year for porcini in Kent, Surrey and Sussex and he is now banned from foraging in his ancestral woods (Epping Forest).  You get fined if they catch you picking there, now.   He blames the Poles.  And I expect they blame the Italians.