Friday 28 December 2012

Fungi on Beech

Fungi on a felled Beech in The Knoll, Hayes, on 24 December 2012.  Stereum hirsutum (Hairy Curtain Crust) and Trametes versicolor (Turkeytail).
Fungi on a felled Beech in The Knoll, Hayes, on 24 December 2012.
This piece of a Beech tree has been growing fungi for a few years.  There's nothing individually spectacular here, but it does look quite colourful.  I think these fungi are Stereum hirsutum (Hairy Curtain Crust) - that's the orange one - and Trametes versicolor (Turkeytail).  

It's interesting that they seem to have colonised the wood in wedges, rather than in rings from the outside in.

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