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Bracket… identifiable without the microscope?

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  • August 8, 2015 at 4:18 pm #29614
    jimmymac2

      Found on a one-year-old Goat Willow trunk which has been placed next to a path after the tree fell down last year. This is the first fungus on it and I want it to be a good one!

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      Very soft, like brie, and grass has managed to grow right through some of the other fruiting bodies (there are several along the entire length of the trunk).

      August 8, 2015 at 5:30 pm #35651
      mollisia

        Hello,

        I think this is young and fresh Daedaleopsis confragosa. You can easily verify it, when you press a thumb on the pore surface, which in these fresh fruitbodies will immediately turn flesh-coloured.

        by the way, the grass didn’t grew through the bracket, but the bracket grew around the grass!

        best regards,

        Andreas

        August 8, 2015 at 7:36 pm #35652
        jimmymac2

          Thanks Andreas,

          I just snuck out now before the sun sets, the fruit body did turn flesh coloured! :D

          I’m so glad I didn’t have to look at it under the microscope, I’m just starting out with that sort of thing!! :D

          James

          August 9, 2015 at 7:56 am #35653
          mollisia

            Hello,

            he he, sometimes one is lucky to find something which can be determined without microscope – until the molecularists find out that it is a complex of six different species 😮 :mrgreen:

            best regards,

            Andreas

            August 9, 2015 at 9:29 am #35654
            jimmymac2

              Hi,

              Yes, that is one of the downsides of mycology! Everything is so similar. Daedaleopsis confragosa is only my 56th identified fungi species! 😳

              This is the photo I took yesterday evening of the flesh coloured fruit body:

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              Thanks again,

              James

              August 9, 2015 at 9:30 am #35655
              jimmymac2

                P.S. You can see how much the fruiting body has grown, the fb in the previous comment is the same one as in the photo at the beginning of this thread!

                August 9, 2015 at 9:44 am #35656
                Flaxton
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                  The colour change is even more obvious on the pore surface rather than the top surface.

                  Mal

                  August 25, 2015 at 4:23 pm #35657
                  Steve

                    Believe it or not but this has been split in the past into two forms, D. confragosa and D. confragosa var. tricolor (Fungi of Switzerland Vol 2). It’s such a variable fungus it took me some years to be able to recognise it easily – I’ve even seen it growing with the pores on top. I recorded quite a few on Weds but didn’t pick one – just took a little mirror to look underneath, with which you can also take photos without breaking the fungus off: “take only pictures, leave just your footsteps” .. if you can ;)

                    Steve

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