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

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

www.rivendell.org.uk

On 03/09/2011 19:03, Jake wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:25:04 +0100, 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
==============================================
Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.

www.rivendell.org.uk


Thanks for that link, Jake. Fortunately, the lack of mushroom odour
relieved my suspicions somewhat, but having had HF in the garden before
(indeed, it is in a number of gardens in our road), I was concerned,
particularly since Birch is susceptible to it.

As to letting the fly loose:~), be sure he is on a long strand of sticky
silk. Such a nice, juicy victim isn't going to get away that easily!

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

In article ,
Spider wrote:

Thanks for that link, Jake. Fortunately, the lack of mushroom odour
relieved my suspicions somewhat, but having had HF in the garden before
(indeed, it is in a number of gardens in our road), I was concerned,
particularly since Birch is susceptible to it.

Well, yes, but don't panic over it. If it was a tenth as lethal as
the uninformed press made out, we wouldn't have any old woodlands!
Birch is the number one tree for mycorrhizal associations, and is
always a bit problematic in rich soils, which makes it VERY hard
to tell whether a fungus on its roots is friend or foe.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article op.v08tb2segkcl5l@home1, 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.

Well, it's definitely not THAT! I can't tell you what it is or
how it grows, but I generally advise not worrying. Even if
fungi grow on a plant, they are quite likely to be effectively
harmless or even beneficial. And many grow on other things in
the soil.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 03/09/2011 19:05, wrote:
In articleop.v08tb2segkcl5l@home1, 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.

Well, it's definitely not THAT! I can't tell you what it is or
how it grows, but I generally advise not worrying. Even if
fungi grow on a plant, they are quite likely to be effectively
harmless or even beneficial. And many grow on other things in
the soil.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Hi Nick,

Yes, I've come to that realisation based on lack of mushroom odour
alone. Alas, my nose isn't very useful atm so I borrowed RG's.

I'm generally pleased and interested to see fungi of all sorts; it's
just the dreaded HF that sends cold shivers down my spine! I'll try and
do a spore print, if it's not too late, but comparing colour
descriptions of spores is, I find, rather confusing. Nevertheless, I'll
have a go.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

"RG" wrote in message newsp.v08tb2segkcl5l@home1...
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



It'll almost certainly be on this site somewhere,
http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ , but there's a lot of stuff to rake
through.

In article ,
Keith Cunningham wrote:

It'll almost certainly be on this site somewhere,
http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ , but there's a lot of stuff to rake
through.

You can't identify fungi like that from pictures alone. Sorry.
At the very least, you need the details of their stem, gills and
cap and spore colour - and, for reliable indentification, often
spore shape (which needs a microscope).

Even when I did a fair amount of this, there were some where I
just had to give up because I lacked the last.

There are exceptions, but that picture isn't one.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 04/09/2011 08:56, Keith Cunningham wrote:
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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



It'll almost certainly be on this site somewhere,
http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ , but there's a lot of stuff to rake
through.


Thanks for that, Keith. I'll have a look. Just as well spiders have
eight eyes!

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay