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Old 28-07-2005, 08:14 PM
Kay
 
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Default Fungus identification

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!
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Kay
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