Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

WANTED: Tree Identification, Fungus Identification, Winchfield Station

Update: got it! sulphur polyphore (past its prime) on black locust tree. Thanks to: Mel, Jane, Elfie, Janine. See also: http://instagram.com/p/OlSOx8gud1/

Winchfield Station Car Park is home to a rather lovely tree, which is afflicted with a rather beautiful – but I suspect probably terminal – fungus:

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I lack the books for tree identification and think that before attacking Roger Philips’s Mushrooms & Fungi of GB I should throw it open to Twitter in case anyone knows the identity of both tree and fungus by sight.

Shame, it really is rather beautiful with the rough bark and trunk; the fungus is easily 60cm/2′ high, for scale.

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Comments

7 responses to “WANTED: Tree Identification, Fungus Identification, Winchfield Station”

  1. Elfie

    Could be chicken-of-the-woods, gone slightly past…?

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    1. alecm

      Oyster mushrooms? They are a straw yellow, rather than sulphurous.

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  2. Elfie

    The oyster mushrooms I’ve grown need cold weather /frost before they start to fruit…

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  3. Elfie

    You really need to see under the fronds to see if they’re gilled or polypore…

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  4. Elfie

    Also the stripy texture of the edges in the picture looks like a polypore way of growing, not a pleurotus way…

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  5. Elfie

    colour on chicken-of-the-woods fades with age…

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    1. alecm

      Comment seems to have shifted to my Facebook wall – includes zooms.

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