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Author Topic: Mosses, Lichens, Liverworts etc: under-recorded groups  (Read 46120 times)

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Re: Mosses, Lichens, Liverworts etc: under-recorded groups
« Reply #120 on: October 16, 2016, 05:22:08 PM »
Tropical lichens (Venezuela 2011) just to compare:

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« Reply #121 on: October 16, 2016, 06:37:15 PM »
I did consider the Scalycaps but they tend to have lighter caps than the one you have illustrated. There is so much variation, of course, and it may me a species we don't get over here.
OK, I will leave it as 'unknown' then; they are not easy to ID, plus that I didn't take enough close-up pictures.
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« Reply #122 on: October 16, 2016, 06:40:46 PM »
Tropical lichens (Venezuela 2011) just to compare:

Wow :o I should have some interesting ones from Peru (if to get to the bottom of pictures on the backup storage).
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« Reply #123 on: October 17, 2016, 01:22:20 AM »
My little persimmon stump had a glorious good-bye this year:

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« Reply #124 on: October 17, 2016, 08:33:43 AM »
My little persimmon stump had a glorious good-bye this year:

A wonderful image.

Almost certainly Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor), although there are one or two similar looking species.
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« Reply #125 on: October 17, 2016, 09:38:05 PM »
My little persimmon stump had a glorious good-bye this year:



Looks nice, Rick. Did you cut the pesimmon on purpose or did it die of something?
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« Reply #126 on: October 18, 2016, 12:49:55 AM »
We all have to admit that only in the plant world the 'decay' can result in such wonderful imagery ;)
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« Reply #127 on: October 18, 2016, 04:34:09 AM »
How I loved that Meader persimmon.  It grew for 13 years to a height of 3m.  It's always been iffy here in my cold climate, but even survived a -35°F (-37°C) winter.  (The cultivar came from state of New Hampshire, USA.  New Hampshire is also zone 4 like me, but a different kind of climate.)  It's the wacky cold temperature swings that we get with climate change now that did it in.  I would get more than a hundred persimmons on the tree in the last years of its life, and they were oh so yummy!  Meader is self-fruitful and has no seeds, too.  It died the winter of 2011-2012.

  Thanks for the probable fungus ID, Chris.

Some more pics from a couple weeks ago, growing on an old fallen Sugar maple log in the woods.

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« Reply #128 on: October 18, 2016, 10:36:05 AM »
Here is the same fungus Hericium coralloides, growing on wood in mixed Nothofagus forest taken near Te Anau earlier this year. It is very good to eat.

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« Reply #129 on: October 18, 2016, 07:36:46 PM »
Lovely images Rick and David.

One I long to see but something of a tree desert here.
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« Reply #130 on: October 18, 2016, 08:56:26 PM »
Very nice Rick and David!
I have seen it a couple times here but it is rare.
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« Reply #131 on: October 19, 2016, 09:41:03 PM »
Could be a Cotinarius? img. 1020078. Birch polypore, piptoporus betulinus img. 1020082.

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« Reply #132 on: October 19, 2016, 09:54:12 PM »
Birch polypore is called "knivkjuke" in Norwegian. If you insert your steel knife into the polypore the knife doesn't rust!



Picture from this site: http://murul.no/KIM/brukskniver.html
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« Reply #133 on: October 20, 2016, 07:46:05 AM »
Could be a Cotinarius? img. 1020078. Birch polypore, piptoporus betulinus img. 1020082.

Could well be, Ian. Given the colour, shape and substrate, I might lean towards Conocybe (both difficult genera). Do you have an image of the stipe and gills?
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« Reply #134 on: October 20, 2016, 07:52:04 PM »
Birch polypore is called "knivkjuke" in Norwegian. If you insert your steel knife into the polypore the knife doesn't rust!

Picture from this site: http://murul.no/KIM/brukskniver.html

Interesting, what would be the explanation for this? - translation, please.
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