Hi
I won't comment until I can see the pics - not your fault, I fully appreciate, Simon. Do you have images of the smut spores?
cheers
Chris
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- Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:41 pm
- Forum: Rusts, Smuts, and Mildews
- Topic: Arum maculatum: a full set
- Replies: 2
- Views: 58
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:50 pm
- Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
- Topic: Peziza sp.?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 96
Re: Peziza sp.?
Hello, this is most likely Disciotis venosa. If you have a microscope at hand, you can pick a small piece of the hymenium and squash it in Melzers Reagens (or Luglos solution) -> if the ascus tips turn blue it is a Peziza species. If the ascus tips do not turn blue, it is not a Peziza species, but ...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:39 pm
- Forum: General fungi discussion
- Topic: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
- Replies: 713
- Views: 84533
Re: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)
Ophiobolus ponticus Petr. Ophiobolus ponticus.jpg The background information is all in the image. This is the second British record - see: http://www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/FRDBIrecord.asp?intGBNum=62627 . More about the species here (Paul Cannon has updated the info based on this collection): htt...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:30 pm
- Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
- Topic: Peziza sp.?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 96
Re: Peziza sp.?
Hi
a section through the fruitbody can furnish useful information. There is a helpful basic key here: http://www.fieldmycology.net/GBCHKLST/key.asp?KeyID=8
best wishes
Chris
a section through the fruitbody can furnish useful information. There is a helpful basic key here: http://www.fieldmycology.net/GBCHKLST/key.asp?KeyID=8
best wishes
Chris
- Fri Apr 13, 2018 4:51 pm
- Forum: Fungi on miscellaneous substrates (not soil or wood)
- Topic: Ingoldian Fungi
- Replies: 11
- Views: 433
Re: Ingoldian Fungi
Chris Could you give a few more details of the collecting method please. Do you just scoop the foam into a container and add some fixative. Then examine straight away under the microscope? How much fixative to sample? My usual technique has been to use a plastic teaspoon to scoop up foam into a col...
- Wed Apr 11, 2018 7:42 pm
- Forum: Fungi on miscellaneous substrates (not soil or wood)
- Topic: Ingoldian Fungi
- Replies: 11
- Views: 433
Ingoldian Fungi
A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to sample a "foam cake" which had formed (quite naturally) in a small stream near the Yorkshire coast. CB foam 01.jpg The sample contained a fabulous "bloom" of diatoms - I might post a few images in due course. There were also conidia of around half a doze...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:53 pm
- Forum: Non-flowering Plants - (Mosses, Liverworts, algae, etc.)
- Topic: Identification please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 190
Re: Identification please
Welcome to UKFungi Anna This is one of the horsetails which has separate fertile and vegetative (photosynthetic) stems. I think this could well be Equisetum telmateia , Great Horsetail; a rather splendid plant in full growth - worth a visit later in the year. See: http://www.freenatureimages.eu/plan...
- Sat Apr 07, 2018 2:56 pm
- Forum: Fungi on miscellaneous substrates (not soil or wood)
- Topic: Rutola graminis
- Replies: 2
- Views: 123
Re: Rutola graminis
Hello Steve.
The anagramatisation is quite deliberate - see: http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/word/anagram.html. That whole website is well worth exploring - though unforgivably fungi appear to be totally absent . . .
Chris
The anagramatisation is quite deliberate - see: http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/word/anagram.html. That whole website is well worth exploring - though unforgivably fungi appear to be totally absent . . .
Chris
- Sat Apr 07, 2018 2:35 pm
- Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
- Topic: Fungus on Sonchus.asper - help to ID needed please
- Replies: 12
- Views: 530
Re: Fungus on Sonchus.asper - help to ID needed please
Hello and welcome to the forum. Hardly a guess - you are quite correct, this is stage II of Miyagia pseudosphaeria . The key feature is the ring of dark brown paraphyses, with practice and with a x10 lens this feature can be recognised in the field. Miyagia pseudosphaeria 0b.jpg The only other rust ...
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:32 pm
- Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
- Topic: Clitocybe sp?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 329
Re: Clitocybe sp?
Please read viewtopic.php?f=4&t=49