On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:25:04 +0100, RG wrote:

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/d6975da386_1.22MB

The linked picture is posted on behalf of Spider who is currently outside
making the most of the clement weather.

A few years ago she transplanted into a pot a wind- or bird- sown Birch
seedling.
Now it needs to be moved, but on removing the pot a number of fungal
fruiting bodies were revealed.
The gills are light coloured and it has no particular smell.

Can anyone advise please whether this is harmful or not? Spider is always
cautious about honey fungus because we have had it in the garden before.

Many thanks


Spider's obviously let the fly loose . Sorry but clicking the link
isn't showing anything up for me other than a load of ad-type text so
can't comment on your (supposed) pic. But here's a link to the RHS
page on honey fungus which might help you to at least (I hope) rule
honey fungus out as the problem.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?PID=180

Cheers
Jake
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Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.

www.rivendell.org.uk