Two Shrooms

Fantastic shots, well worth the climb!

What Sprocket said. Also the top one look like oyster mushrooms... if only; it's ginormous! :)

Glad you enjoyed the walk Rick, I hope the weather stays fine while you have this unanticipated time away from work.

Thanks, Sprocket. I liked it, I love climbing! :)

Thanks, H. Wouldn't it be great if it *was* an oyster mushroom? ;)

Thanks G. It's actually kind of warm today, around 50 F. It is really nice to be home on the weekends, I could get used to it. ;D

they are stunning shots, wtg Rick!

Thanks, D! It was fun to do a bit of climbing.

so I see...

:)

Wow great shots - hadn't realised you had your own blog - doh!

Thanks, Viv! I haven't been moblogging for very long. :)

these are great....you can see the incredible structure of the shroom, well worth climbing for :-)

Thanks, P. It was good to get out with the camera - good therapy. :D

This is an amazing-looking mushroom and it has be a bit stumped (sorry). Can you remember how it was attached to the tree and what sort of tree it was attached to? (sadly, it isn't an oyster mushroom, by the way) :)

Euphro, the tree is an elm. Here's a pic of small branch:

The one in the knothole is growing down from the wood, the upper one is out of the wood through a split in the bark. This an old, heavily damaged tree that has mostly suckers still growing on it. The myceleum is in the dead wood of this tree.

OK :)

Thanks for the tree info, that was the clincher.

Given its growth habit, I think that it is the white elm or elm oyster mushroom (not to be confused with the edible oyster) Hypsizygus ulmarius.

The top shot is of quite an old one which has tilted over (that's what confused me at first; I thought it was some sort of strange cup fungus - ascomycete). The last shot is of a young one still growing. The cracks are characteristic. There is more info here :)

wow...aint he clever....I love all this detective work :-)

Cool! That's really interesting, thanks. They are quite big.

P., yep he is beyond clever. Euphro is the Sherlock Holmes of fungi. ;D

*blushes* :D