For me it is not unusual to see clusters of mushrooms on dead and almost dead trees.Seeing fungi on the trunk of a living tree is usually a bad sign. My own record is this picture of honey fungi: https://flic.kr/p/2hvrRRR
Henk Op di 28 dec. 2021 om 02:36 schreef David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com>: > > On Dec 28, 2021, at 5:53 AM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don’t think I’ve seen a cluster of mushroom growing out of a tree trunk > > such as those in the first pic. Is the tree alive or dead? > > I'm not sure whether the tree was still alive. Seeing mushrooms like that on > a trunk was a surprise to me as well. There were several clusters at > different heights. The one I photographed was at about my head height. > > I've seen very small mushrooms growing from crevices of tree trunks before > but nothing this big. We have some impressive bracket fungi on our property, > one on an old stump and another on a living tree, which is probably going to > have to be cut down as a result as it'll be weakening the wood. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > > > Rick > > > >> On Dec 26, 2021, at 4:49 AM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I went running on some trails up the hill today and a couple of mushrooms > >> caught my eye. My daughter is really interested in mushrooms so I stopped > >> each time to take photos with my phone. > >> > >> I don't know what type this one is... > >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1124/#peso > >> > >> But I do know a fly agaric when I see one. I had seen the broken-off head > >> of a small one on the side of the trail so I looked up the bank to see if > >> there were more, and found this. > >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1125/#peso > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Dave > >> -- > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
