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echinosum wrote:

mogga;893701 Wrote:
'How does your garden grow?s Fotos - Pinnwand-Fotos | Facebook'
(http://tinyurl.com/329v3f3)

Hope you can see it. It's a mushroom type thing growing on a tree
stump in the garden.

'How does your garden grow?s Fotos - Pinnwand-Fotos | Facebook'
(http://tinyurl.com/329v3f3)
that's underneath
It's called Dryad's Saddle or Polyporus squamosus, a very common fungus
of dead tree stumps. I was rather surprised to learn it is on a living
tree, and also surprised that someone thinks it edible. But wikipedia
is my friend. So I learn (1) it can grow on living maples and (2)
although normally listed as an edible fungus in the textbooks (not
poisonous, but not usually nice to eat), but apparently some people do
eat them, but you have to get them when they are very young and tender.
Since they persist for a long time, they are normally encountered when
they are tough and manky.

It can also grow on living walnuts. We had one with it, which we
removed (on the grounds that the tree itself was manky, probably
for that reason). But it's not a serious parasite, as it doesn't
kill a tree fast - we had an apple with it that had had it for at
least 30 years, when it finally lost so many branches as to need
removing.



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.