Cannot Id this Fungi (1 Viewer)

Woundsinger

Well-known member

• Oct 24, 2005

• #1

I am really and truly stuck on this one...
I cannot seem to find it in my books or on the internet...

I apologise for the poor qaulity of light but the sun was setting and the batteries in the camera decided that they had enough of photographing fungi for the day so the flash became a thing of the past... ||


Many thanks for any help recieved...
( also, can anyone suggest any good sites on the net for Id'ng Fungi?)

 

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Woundsinger

Well-known member

• Oct 25, 2005

• #2

Further to the above..the closest I have come to Id'ng this one is Fistulina Hepatica..Beefsteak fungus..I am still not happy with this though as all the pics I have seen so far (on the net and in books)do not show the prominences out of the side of the cap as in the photo..Also the porous looking surface confuses me..
Help!?! :-C

 

Woundsinger

Well-known member

• Oct 26, 2005

• #3

Anyone able to help..I am still coming up fruitless :stuck: :-C
It is on a decidious tree trunk..
The colour is a sort of blood red..I could not pick it up etc so unable to shoot the underneath as I had my 4 year old son with me whom I tell NOT to pic any fungi( for obvious reasons). So I couldn't very well be seen doing what I had told him not to do..
Anyway..Bumped this up..
Any help would be brilliant..Even if its a case of 'no, it isn't Fistulina Hepatica'

Cheers alll
Yours in desperation :'D

 

Larry Lade

Moderator

• Oct 26, 2005

• #4

Sorry I cannot help with the ID, but there should be someone along shortly who will be able to help you sort this out.

 

Ranger James

Well-known member

• Oct 26, 2005

• #5

Wouldn't bet on it! Sorry, all I can make out is a strawberry poison dart frog climbing up an old carpet. Mind you fungi is not my forte (very little is) and I'm sure someone will whip out an unarguable ID for you.
Jim

 

Silver

Registered Sane

• Oct 26, 2005

• #6

Ranger James said:

Wouldn't bet on it! Sorry, all I can make out is a strawberry poison dart frog climbing up an old carpet. /QUOTE]


Excellent suggestion, Jim!

I have looked at these images and my frank opinion is that the best thing is to move on. They could be Fistulina, it can have a warted margin and young fruitbodies can be quite irregular, though usually horizontal!

There again I wouldn't actually confirm it is even a fungus. 'Strawberry poison dart frog' seems just as appealing a suggestion and might explain my vague feeling that something in the darkness is mooning at us.

So I'm sitting this one out.

Alan

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Woundsinger

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• Oct 26, 2005

• #7

Cheers all..
I am probably going out onto my patch again tommorow morning..I will see if I can get a better pic this time..(taking spare batteries and minus the kids )
Hopefully the little blighter will still be in situ ..
Cheers again..

 

Woundsinger

Well-known member

• Oct 29, 2005

• #8

Well I managed to get out to the area where I found this fungi and it had gone :C
Oh well.. I will put it down to my first experience of a UFO (Unidentified Fungal object..)

strawberry poison dart frog climbing up an old carpet

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I suppose it might have hopped away.. :frog:
Cheers everyone for trying.