fungus ID please

[Two_Sheds]

Does anyone know what this fungus is, growing on a Victoria plum tree?

I've looked through pages and pages of fungus ID sites, but they all look the same to me, and none of them look like this one.

[Nicos]

Does it come and go- or get bigger every year?
Ganoderma ( one of many ) gets bigger every year
or Inonotus hispidus (tends to be more fleshy and hairy)which grows afresh each year.

Either way, it looks like the tree is getting rotten and the fungi have decided to make the most of things!

Sorry- not an expert on fungi- although I wish I were!!!

either way- tis a pretty bracket fungus!

[Flummery]

Looks like the one we used to call Dryad's Saddle. Actually that's probably a catch-all name for any pale bracket fungus. No help, me, eh?

[Nicos]

Having spent a few hours reading through one of my fungi books, ( thanks- I really enjoyed sitting down with a cuppa!!!)
..the nearest this book comes up with is the Turkeytail ( Trametes versicolor)

what do you think????



..and nope- it's not edible - if that is actually what it is!

[sarraceniac]

Having spent a few hours reading through one of my fungi books, ( thanks- I really enjoyed sitting down with a cuppa!!!)
..the nearest this book comes up with is the Turkeytail ( Trametes versicolor)

what do you think????



..and nope- it's not edible - if that is actually what it is!

Spot on Nicos. (Well you did ask what we think).

[Nicos]

Spot on Nicos. (Well you did ask what we think).

well....I have been known to be wrong!!!

Infact , on many many occasions!!!

[PAULW]

Well I put forward Chondrostereum purpureum SILVER-LEAF FUNGUS which attack fruit trees or Coriolus versicolor MANY-ZONED POLYPORE

[sarraceniac]

Well I put forward Chondrostereum purpureum SILVER-LEAF FUNGUS which attack fruit trees or Coriolus versicolor MANY-ZONED POLYPORE

The Chondrostereum is more warty and wrinkly and the Coriolus versicolor is an old name for the Trametes versicolor. Buy Nicos' book, it is more modern. Actually, why do they keep changing plants' names? I blame the Government.

[Nicos]

The Chondrostereum is more warty and wrinkly and the Coriolus versicolor is an old name for the Trametes versicolor. Buy Nicos' book, it is more modern. Actually, why do they keep changing plants' names? I blame the Government.

If you are interested- my book is 'Mushrooms' by Roger Phillips - Mcmillan publishers
ISBN
0-330-44237-6

Still not saying I'm right though!!!

[Two_Sheds]

Thanks everyone, what good detective work, esp Nicos. I'd got as far as bracket fungus myself, then got stumped (pun intended).

I'm going back for a closer look, to see if it's really Turkey Tail, or a relative.

[green thing]

Hi two sheds
fungus is parasitic, living inside the and feeding upon the wood of its host tree. It creates the fruiting bodies as part of its reproduction process. The fruiting bodies release the fungal spores into the air which can then complete the cycle by infecting other trees in the area . The decay process can cause death to the tree through damaged roots or through total structural failure.we have a fungi that looks the same in the local park ,it is working it's way through trees in the park .

[Two_Sheds]

fungus is parasitic

Not all of them are. This one is saprobic.

From my link:
"saprobes survive by decomposing dead or decaying organic material. Many wood rotting fungi are saprobes, and help decompose dead wood--but other wood rotters are parasitic and attack living wood.

Most yard and garden mushrooms (like Marasmius oreades) are saprobes, as well as dung-loving mushrooms and mushrooms that decompose leaf or needle litter"

[Nicos]

Gosh- I thought they were all harmless to their host- just using making the most of decaying matter!
well then- there you go!

[Jeanied]

Then there are the mycorrhizals as well!
So now we have 3 kinds - as follows:

Species of fungi are divided into the following three categories
1 - Mycorrhizal fungi form a partnership with some plants,but mostly with living trees.
2 - Parasitic fungi prefer the living host; this category is fairly small.
3 - Saprophytic fungi prefer dead and decaying material.

[sarraceniac]

I think that there are even a few that are epiphytic. They simply hang on trees etc. and absorb nutrition from the air. But none in this country.