Fungi Help Needed...(pic heavy!)

[AndyW]

Hi all

I'm not too sharp with Fungi id yet and am struggling with some I've seen recently.

Been digging around some woods I haven't been to for many years and made quite a find. The place is so rich compared to my recent haunts

Plenty of Cramp Balls and Birch Polypore but some more too that I haven't come across before.

1. This was very thin and laying next to a dead fallen tree I was looking over

Is this Tinder Box Fungus?

2. Spotted on a rotting stump..it was white underneath.

3. On a dead branch

4. I think this is Stump Puff Ball

5. On the side of a tree trunk

6. On the top of a tree stump

7. This was on a long fallen tree trunk

Could this be a "young" Tinder Box Fungus?

8. Hoof Fungus

9. Is this also Hoof Fungus? Shaped very differently from no.8 though.

I've been all over Rogers Mushrooms and am still struggling. Hope you like the pics and can help.

Andy

 

[Galemys]

My guesses:
nr 2 is beefsteak fungus (Fistulina hepatica), 3 birch polypore, 4 yew´s ears

Nice pictures,

Tom

 

[Too Much Kit To Carry]

Hi Andy,

Number 3 I belive is Auricularia auricula-judae I know it as Jew's Ear which I mainly find growing on Elder have a look here http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5580.asp


Number 4 look like a Piptoporus betulinus or Birch Polypore that is a little wonky http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~6642.asp

As for the other's I'll watch this thread to learn from the other guys on BCUK

Phil.

 

[Too Much Kit To Carry]

Is number 6 a Turkey Tail Fungus?

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/nov2000.html ??


Cool pictures BTW - thanks for sharing

Cheers,

Phil

 

[Galemys]

Number 3 I belive is Auricularia auricula-judae I know it as Jew's Ear which I mainly find growing on Elder have a look here http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5580.asp

Number 4 look like a Piptoporus betulinus or Birch Polypore that is a little wonky http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~6642.asp

You´re right Phil I mixed the two up!

Tom

 

[xylaria]

1 Phellinus igniarius or some thing simerlar
2 Beef steak Fistulina hepatica
3 Da treees, day got EARS ya know.
4 Birch polypore
5 No idea, but looks really interesting.
6 Hirschioporus abietinus , always grows algae and has purple tinge to it, but I am highly lightly to be wrong as there literally loads of fungi that look like it.
7 Yee could be a young Phellinus something another
8 Hoof
9 Hoof

Polypores are really hard to ID from photos, actaully if I am really honest they are not that easy when they are front you either.

 

[ady05]

at a guess

1= willow bracket
2= beef steak
3= jewes ears
4=birch polypore
5=
6= hairy bracket
7= ? oak mazegill
8= hoof
9= hoof

 

[AndyW]

Thank you all so much for your help!

My first thought when I spotted number 2 was Beef Steak, I take it this one is some what past it's best? The pictures I'm finding make it look far more "lush" than this one and notes seem to suggest finding it roughly Aug > Nov. Still, with the mild winters we're getting I guess anything is possible!

I'll have to also find other sites to research them in future. On Rogers Mushrooms I didn't think his Jews Ears pictures look much like mine, seem far darker. Found others since though.

I'll head back there at the weekend and see if I can get any other pics of no.5 as that has everyone stumped.

 

[xylaria]

If you are going to go back to get a closer look of no5 you could touch it please. If it very soft like a jelly fish don't touch it any more, as it might be slime mould. We basically need to know if has pores and what shape and size the holes are, and how hard it is. Is it as velvety as it looks? It looks like nothing I know and thats really intreaging.

 

[AndyW]

If I can find it again and it's not feeling "like a Jelly Fish" would it be helpful to bring it/some home?

I could always send it on if it's helpful.

I'm just as curious now

 

[xylaria]

I can't tell you if you should pick of not, because I really don't know what it is. I have pm ed you with contact details of local mycology groups, which will be more help.

It could be the immature form of something common so picking it won't be any help. It could be a fungus thats as common as unicorn tears, and you shouldn't really pick that either.