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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! -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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