Mosses, Lichens, Liverworts etc: under-recorded groups

[Hoy]

Tropical lichens (Venezuela 2011) just to compare:

[Gabriela]

I did consider the Scalycaps but they tend to have lighter caps than the one you have illustrated. There is so much variation, of course, and it may me a species we don't get over here.

OK, I will leave it as 'unknown' then; they are not easy to ID, plus that I didn't take enough close-up pictures.

[Gabriela]

Tropical lichens (Venezuela 2011) just to compare:

Wow I should have some interesting ones from Peru (if to get to the bottom of pictures on the backup storage).

[Rick R.]

My little persimmon stump had a glorious good-bye this year:

[Chris Johnson]

My little persimmon stump had a glorious good-bye this year:

A wonderful image.

Almost certainly Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor), although there are one or two similar looking species.

[Hoy]

My little persimmon stump had a glorious good-bye this year:

Looks nice, Rick. Did you cut the pesimmon on purpose or did it die of something?

[Gabriela]

We all have to admit that only in the plant world the 'decay' can result in such wonderful imagery

[Rick R.]

How I loved that Meader persimmon.  It grew for 13 years to a height of 3m.  It's always been iffy here in my cold climate, but even survived a -35°F (-37°C) winter.  (The cultivar came from state of New Hampshire, USA.  New Hampshire is also zone 4 like me, but a different kind of climate.)  It's the wacky cold temperature swings that we get with climate change now that did it in.  I would get more than a hundred persimmons on the tree in the last years of its life, and they were oh so yummy!  Meader is self-fruitful and has no seeds, too.  It died the winter of 2011-2012.

  Thanks for the probable fungus ID, Chris.

Some more pics from a couple weeks ago, growing on an old fallen Sugar maple log in the woods.

     

[David Lyttle]

Here is the same fungus Hericium coralloides, growing on wood in mixed Nothofagus forest taken near Te Anau earlier this year. It is very good to eat.

[Chris Johnson]

Lovely images Rick and David.

One I long to see but something of a tree desert here.

[Hoy]

Very nice Rick and David!
I have seen it a couple times here but it is rare.

[ian mcdonald]

Could be a Cotinarius? img. 1020078. Birch polypore, piptoporus betulinus img. 1020082.

[Hoy]

Birch polypore is called "knivkjuke" in Norwegian. If you insert your steel knife into the polypore the knife doesn't rust!



Picture from this site: http://murul.no/KIM/brukskniver.html

[Chris Johnson]

Could be a Cotinarius? img. 1020078. Birch polypore, piptoporus betulinus img. 1020082.

Could well be, Ian. Given the colour, shape and substrate, I might lean towards Conocybe (both difficult genera). Do you have an image of the stipe and gills?

[Gabriela]

Birch polypore is called "knivkjuke" in Norwegian. If you insert your steel knife into the polypore the knife doesn't rust!

Picture from this site: http://murul.no/KIM/brukskniver.html

Interesting, what would be the explanation for this? - translation, please.