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by Fay Newbery
Mon Dec 23, 2024 3:38 am
Forum: Rusts, Smuts, and Mildews
Topic: Nigel Stringer
Replies: 4
Views: 392

Re: Nigel Stringer

So sad.
Nigel was always so willing to share his knowledge and enthusiasm for plant pathogens.
A great loss to the mycological community as well as to his family.
by Fay Newbery
Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: Lichens
Topic: British Lichen Society AGM 2025
Replies: 2
Views: 112

Re: British Lichen Society AGM 2025

Thanks for sharing this update, Mark.
by Fay Newbery
Tue Nov 19, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Lichens
Topic: British Lichen Society AGM 2025
Replies: 2
Views: 112

British Lichen Society AGM 2025

Dear lichen enthusiasts,
The next BLS AGM weekend will be held in London at the Natural History Museum from 10th-12th January 2025.
There will be a Friday evening lecture, the AGM itself on Saturday morning, talks on Saturday afternoon and a field trip to Kensington Gardens & the Albert Memorial on ...
by Fay Newbery
Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:11 pm
Forum: Fungi on miscellaneous substrates (not soil or wood)
Topic: Aquatic hyphomycete
Replies: 6
Views: 6014

Re: Aquatic hyphomycete

This species has just turned up again in Yorkshire. Collected from a small streamlet in the garden at RHS Harlow Carr in Harrogate last week. My photo is not particularly good but all the appendages were there!
Interestingly the species was seen in NW Portugal during work done in 2001-2002. See ...
by Fay Newbery
Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: Ascomycetes
Topic: Ivy fungus
Replies: 2
Views: 3571

Re: Ivy fungus

I don't think there are any reliable macro features that will separate these leaf spots. I always reach for my microscope.
by Fay Newbery
Sun Nov 26, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: Lichens
Topic: Taeniolella delicata LF on Lecanora hybocarpa?
Replies: 4
Views: 681

Re: Taeniolella delicata LF on Lecanora hybocarpa?

Sadly there were only six records of T pertusariicola on Ophioparma by Aug 2023 (and one on Pertusaria pseudocorallina). I know it's been seen in Cumbria, Devon and three Scottish counties. But many sightings have not yet made it through to a record in the BLS database.
I'll look forward to seeing ...
by Fay Newbery
Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:00 am
Forum: Lichens
Topic: Taeniolella delicata LF on Lecanora hybocarpa?
Replies: 4
Views: 681

Re: Taeniolella delicata LF on Lecanora hybocarpa?

T delicata has been recorded at least once in the UK on Lecanora hybocarpa in vc 11.
by Fay Newbery
Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:56 am
Forum: Lichens
Topic: Taeniolella delicata LF on Lecanora hybocarpa?
Replies: 4
Views: 681

Re: Taeniolella delicata LF on Lecanora hybocarpa?

This looks like a good ID to me and a good find. I suspect that most people who saw this would assume that it was a random overgrowth of something not associated with the lichen and therefore ignore it.
Please note that T pertusariicola is present in the UK. Most records on Ophioparma ventosa.
by Fay Newbery
Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:48 pm
Forum: Lichens
Topic: Erythricium aurantiacum teleomorph
Replies: 1
Views: 412

Re: Erythricium aurantiacum teleomorph

Amazing photographs!
by Fay Newbery
Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:40 am
Forum: Rusts, Smuts, and Mildews
Topic: Mildew on Verbascum
Replies: 1
Views: 1454

Re: Mildew on Verbascum

Did you look at this microscopically? Otherwise I doubt if an ID will be possible.
by Fay Newbery
Sat Nov 26, 2022 4:59 pm
Forum: Lichens
Topic: Leccanora cofusa pycnidia?
Replies: 1
Views: 2360

Re: Leccanora cofusa pycnidia?

I'm just looking at some young, green crustose thalli. I'd describe them as 'granular' rather than sorediate. The margin has a beautiful feathery prothallus. All of the three thalli have brown imbedded pycnidia with a slightly raised thalline rim. The pycnidial walls are colourless except around the ...
by Fay Newbery
Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:35 pm
Forum: Lichens
Topic: Erythricium aurantiacum on Physcia tenella
Replies: 6
Views: 1379

Re: Erythricium aurantiacum on Physcia tenella

I've found areas of the basidima of Erythricum aurantiacum without associated bulbils before. In the case that I saw, the bulbils were on top of a decaying thallus and the basidia were under the thallus where the air would have remained more moist. Microscopy is needed to confirm.

Could your sample ...