Pics: Name that fungus...

[NickfromWI]

Went to see a tree that had fallen over. Clients wanted to know if it could be pulled back up!!! It was a 40' tall tree that I think is related to Cocculus laurifolius, but I'd never seen one THAT tall. Usually a 20' is very tall.

Anyway, trunk was super rotten and tree was half-dead. It had this giant conk on it. You guys care to edumacate me on what I'm looking at?

 

[sotc]

Looks like Ganoderma applanatum, brown cubicle rot?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Phellinus Igniarius Mycelium ?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I bet Willie got it ......

 

[top_notch]

Don't think I would eat that one!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[wiley_p]

Looks like Ganoderma applanatum, brown cubicle rot?

Willie, I ain't as smart as you, nor as papered. But I'm of the mind that Ganoderma suggests a white pocket rot.

 

[Paul B]

I vote Ganoderma also. Just saw a few over the weekend on douglas fir wildlife stumps. AKA Artist's conk, no?

 

[sotc]

Willie, I ain't as smart as you, nor as papered. But I'm of the mind that Ganoderma suggests a white pocket rot.

I'm obviously not as smart as you think! I had to get my book out to prove you right!

 

[sotc]

A lignin eater and lignin is what gives tensile strength. Now let me go look that up before I get the wrong thing in my head again

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Sorry, no, it's the opposite.
The cellulosic fibers give the tensile strength, like the rebars in concrete. Lignin embeds them and gives cohesion and compression strength.

 

[Porkbrick]

i vote artists conk as well, Ganoderma applanatum

 

[sotc]

Shoot, I gotta hit the books again

 

[NeTree]

George. I shall name that fungus... George.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Squishy.... Yupppp.... Squishy

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[NeTree]

ROFLMFAO!!!