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by Lancashire Lad
Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:58 am
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: Elaphomyces granulatus?
Replies: 4
Views: 86

Re: Elaphomyces granulatus?

Hi,

Bit of a strange one this!

Difficult to tell the actual size from your pics, but when you say it was “about thumb sized”, I’m assuming you mean thumb-nail rather than full length of a thumb?

From your photos I’d say it definitely does look more like an Elaphomyces species than a Scleroderma ...
by Lancashire Lad
Mon Feb 03, 2025 4:30 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: 938
Views: 614355

Re: Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)

Sarcoscypha austriaca – Scarlet Elfcup – with orange variant.

Very pleased to confirm that along with the normal red ones, (which have been seen at this particular site for countless years), the orange variant of Sarcoscypha austriaca has reappeared once again.

As usual, many hundreds of normal ...
by Lancashire Lad
Sun Feb 02, 2025 12:55 pm
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: White variety Sarcoscypha austriaca
Replies: 1
Views: 44

Re: White variety Sarcoscypha austriaca

Hi, and welcome to the UK Fungi website.

If all of these were growing on fallen dead wood, and especially if they were all growing in the immediate vicinity of normal red ones, then (other than potentially white Sarcoscypha coccinea in the UK), there aren’t many possible alternatives. – Microscopy ...
by Lancashire Lad
Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:47 am
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: Bracket fungi ID
Replies: 2
Views: 44

Re: Bracket fungi ID

Hi,

Your first photo is showing the pore surface of the fruitbodies.
It is very important when attempting to obtain species identification that as much information as possible is provided - including sharp close-up photos of all aspects of the fungus in question.

In this case, it would appear that ...
by Lancashire Lad
Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:35 am
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: Wet rot - Coniophora puteana?
Replies: 2
Views: 34

Re: Wet rot - Coniophora puteana?

Hi,

There are several corticoid fungi that have this sort of look & colouration at some stage in their growth.

I think it would be impossible to give any sort of confident identification suggestion without having all relevant microscopical characteristics.

Regards,
Mike.
by Lancashire Lad
Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:32 am
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: Hyphae, but of what?
Replies: 2
Views: 49

Re: Hyphae, but of what?

Hi,

There are innumerable fungi with white mycelia/hyphae, and this would need a lot more information macro/micro characteristics to get to any sort of identification suggestion.

Regards,
Mike
by Lancashire Lad
Wed Jan 08, 2025 5:30 pm
Forum: Ascomycetes
Topic: Lachnellula occidentalis?
Replies: 1
Views: 55

Re: Lachnellula occidentalis?

Hi,

More close-up shots of the actual fruitbodies would be helpful. but what can be seen does seem to be what would be expected, with nothing that would cast any doubts

In my experience, other Lachnellula species that have been recorded on Larix in the UK don't have sufficiently similar ...
by Lancashire Lad
Tue Dec 31, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: Arrhenia retiruga?
Replies: 2
Views: 84

Re: Arrhenia retiruga?

Hi Bob,

You may well be correct with Arrhenia retiruga .

Macroscopically it seems to have all the right looks, and it does seem to be growing on the moss.

I don't think that there are many other species that it could be confused with (maybe A. spathulata - but I understand that one is typically a ...
by Lancashire Lad
Tue Dec 31, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: Weird fungus on one birch trunk only, in Teign Gorge
Replies: 3
Views: 85

Re: Weird fungus on one birch trunk only, in Teign Gorge

Hi,

Possibly the article you read was more specific to cultivated trees/shrubs etc. that are attacked ] by Chondrostereum purpureum . (Apple trees seem to be particularly prone to infection).
However, it is also a well known pathogen of many other species of deciduous trees. (and very occasionally ...
by Lancashire Lad
Tue Dec 31, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: Rust on fern
Replies: 1
Views: 62

Re: Rust on fern

Hi Adam,

As far as I'm aware, there are only two rusts which affect Dryopteris ferns: - Milesina kriegeriana , and Milesina carpatorum .

Milesina kriegeriana attacks several Dryopteris species, but Milesina carpatorum only attacks Dryopteris felix-mas

From your photos, I can't be certain that ...
by Lancashire Lad
Tue Dec 31, 2024 3:21 pm
Forum: Fungi ID requests (post here if you aren't sure what type of fungus you've found)
Topic: Weird fungus on one birch trunk only, in Teign Gorge
Replies: 3
Views: 85

Re: Weird fungus on one birch trunk only, in Teign Gorge

Hi, and welcome to the UK Fungi website.

Have you considered Chondrostereum purpureum - Sliverleaf Fungus?
Freshly emerged examples are often seen with brown colouration, and the "hairy" surfaces seen here are also typical.
(To me, your second image does seem to have purple hues).

Regards,
Mike.
by Lancashire Lad
Sun Dec 22, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: Rusts, Smuts, and Mildews
Topic: Nigel Stringer
Replies: 4
Views: 443

Re: Nigel Stringer

Sad news indeed. – Very sudden I understand.

Nigel was the fount of all knowledge with regards to Rusts, Smuts, Moulds, and Powdery Mildews, his contributions to mycological knowledge are vast.

I never met Nigel, but have come across his work time and time again when trying to identify species ...