Hey Look at My Crud...

[KTSmith]

Thanks JD, Oh yes, treerot.com is still up and updated, I usually reach it through Chris's personal site (above). Yes, Chris and retired FS top mycologist Dr. Hal Burdsall and Messiah University Prof. Em. Gary Emberger do a good job there.

 

[JD3000]

White fungus ALWAYS found on container Taxodium here in Central Ohio. Mycorrhizal is my guess

 

[Basswood]

It’s getting more rare to find a beech without BLD here on Long Island. The copper beech was for sale at a nursery. Plus a Katsura growing out of a Crabapple.

 

[Serf Life]

Mushroom in front, shelf in rear. Want to see a cross section when/where the hyphae meet, betting on red belt.

 

[Neill]

I’m not working with this hackberry but noticed it significantly declining this year. Secondary fungal decay? It’s getting quite rotten around the base

 

[JD3000]

That's primary decay me thinks

 

[JD3000]

Cottonwood with bright red sapwood. There were some purple/brown discolorations or canker an younger stem bark. Cytospora?
Not unlike what we see on box elder but didn't go deeper into the wood

 

[ATH]

Cottonwood with bright red sapwood. There were some purple/brown discolorations or canker an younger stem bark. Cytospora?
Not unlike what we see on box elder but didn't go deeper into the wood

I've seen that before. Saw it again this week. These were cut in a timber harvest - these are the tops that were left in the woods. As far as I can tell, they were pretty healthy cottonwood - obviously some heartwood decay in these pieces...but it was big cottonwood, so stop acting so surprised!

 

[JD3000]

White pine showing zero symptoms other than a dead surface root, root rotter of some type?
Cause for concern and aggressive?

Not a ganoderma lucidum/sessile as it was quite soft to the touch

 

[southsoundtree]

Looks like Phaolus schweinitzii does around here.

 

[ATH]

Sure looks like it was introduced by the mower?

 

[JD3000]

Sure looks like it was introduced by the mower?

Seems likely, I've mulched all park and other city trees but years of mower damage is everywhere

 

[JD3000]

Looks like Phaolus schweinitzii does around here.

I think you are correct, just was at treerot.com and that seems to be the best fit by far

 

[KTSmith]

Although past prime, the coloration of the pore surface also suggests schweinitzii . A handy characteristic is that fresh P. schweinitzii will have some degree of hairiness or furry-ness on the upper surface. Not all over, necessarily, may be in alternating concentric bands. With respect to the upper surface of the bracket for the Ganoderma I know, neither the lacquered-shiny kind nor the matte-finish kind will ever have hairs.

 

[southsoundtree]

Aka "velvet top" when fresh.

Aka "cow patty" when old.

 

[Serf Life]

 

[ATH]

Fits the threat title perfectly @Serf Life

 

[Basswood]

Can’t believe people eat those stinky things

 

[KTSmith]

Stinky indeed! Yes, it is the common stinkhorn. Linnaeus had it right, we still use his original name of Phallus impudicus. The stink (chemicals including putrescine and cadaverine) attracts flies which help spread spores / mycelial fragments. @Serf Life did you take this picture and was it in Maine? I haven't seen such a dense fruiting since leaving Georgia for northern New England in 1982.

 

[Serf Life]

I snapped the photo yesterday in Harpswell, about an hour from Portland. The pic doesn’t show them all either, band was about 3’x16’ in older wood chips. Tons of the egg looking primordia(?) about to pop.