Kay wrote:
:: In article , ned writes
:::
::: "Kay" wrote in message
::: ...
:::: Can anyone hazard a guess at a fungus?
::::
:::: It was a bracket fungus - foolishly I didn't note the tree type. But it
:::: was a very dead moss covered tree in a heavily vegetated shaded
:::: intermittent river valley in limestone country.
::::
:::: About 6 inches long, with almost black short 'stem' merging into the
:::: bracket which was white-cream, with an irregular but very definite
:::: boundary between the black and white areas.
::::
:::: Underneath, the 'gills' seemed at first to be 3/4 inch long blunt
:::: spines, but on closer inspection looked more like irregularly chopped
:::: off tubes, like torn macaroni. Or perhaps multiply crimped hanging
:::: curtains.
::::
:::: I considered Maze-gill Daedalea quercina, but the effect was much more
:::: of hanging tubes rather than maze like effect pictured in Phillips, the
:::: colour was much paler and creamier, and I doubt very much indeed
:::: whether there were any oak in that habitat.
::::
:::: The overall look was of Creolophus cirrhatus, but sort of tubes rather
:::: than spines, and that is supposedly rare, and I have found it a very
:::: good rule of thumb to assume that if I've found it, then it isn't rare.
::::
:::: I've got pics, but they're 500KB each - not sure whether there's a size
:::: limit on alt.binaries.gardens and I draw the line at registering on
:::: gardenbanter just to post a pic!
:::
::: Gloeophyllum sepiarium
::
:: No. Basically pretty well white, just slightly cream, lovely clean
:: colour not brown at all. And underneath are long tubes rather than
:: ridges
::
::: or, G. odoratum?
::
:: Haven't found a pic of that.
::
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