UK Fungi

Thanks Chris - at least I was right that they're pedicels! Might you have contact details for Dr. Helfer?

Thanks for the reply and suggestion Chris - there doesn't seem another possibility on this host so perhaps that's the explanation

From Dorset yesterday - I think it can only be Puccinia chaerophyllii on Anthriscus sylvestris but the Bladmineerders description doesn't mention urediospores with pedicels........Chris? w Puccinia chaerophyllii q 171107 056 Anthriscus.jpg w-Puccinia-chaerophyllii-q-171107-1.jpg w-Puccinia-chaerophy...

Hi Chris - great collection of images as always!

In your images the lower cells all appear verrucose despite the colour variation. I'd based my Tranzschelia discolor identification on the +/- smooth lower cell but is this not sufficient to separate them?

;) Sorry Chris! I think I have found both Tranzschelia discolor and T. pruni-spinosae on Prunus over the last month, images of both below, Tranzschelia discolor - teliospores with upper cell verrucose, lower cell smaller, paler and +/- smooth w-Tranzschelia-discolor-190923-024b-Prunus.jpg w-Tranzsch...

Many thanks for the reply Chris and sorry for my delay but I didn't get a reply notification. I was using Bladmineerders but your link gives more information and apiculus length range for both - though I'm now wondering if both my specimens might have been P. tuberculatum ! Jury undecided, will have...

Having recorded Phragmidium mucronatum on Rosa canina agg I've been searching all the Rosa rugosa I've come across in the hope of finding Phragmidium tuberculatum and getting a better concept of the difference between the two.......... :? The micrographs are from R. rugosa and a high proportion of s...

Many thanks for the reply Chris - I didn't collect it at the time but will try and remember to when I'm there again on Sunday.

On the side of an old hard-wood garden table, Dorset - are these Dacrymyces stillatus or D. chrysospermus?

Came across this one on Primrose in a Dorset wood a couple of days ago - Puccinia primulae, Primrose Rust

Hello Melanie, I read your posts with interest and am very tempted by the AmScope MU500-CK 5MP USB Microscope Camera. As you've been using it for the last year I'd be interested in any further comments on it, and (million dollar question) would it also capture good quality still macro images from my...

Dorset, from a couple weeks ago - Pucciniastrum epilobii on Rosebay Willowherb, Chamerion angustifolium?