Over the past few weeks, I’ve chosen the more fragile, ephemeral fungi to post on a Sunday. But that can’t be said of this week’s specimen. Its name? Nah, some kind of bracket.
A wooden bracket? No, it’s a fungus. 17 September 2018
What I like about this sturdy fella is how the older growths have taken on the patterning of the host log. It’s almost as if they’re all made of wood.
crispina kemp 
So is this mycology or just kink for you crimson? I can’t seem to figure that out. Writer, poet, fungi aficionado… 😉
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By no means an expert. Just a favourite focus for photos. You know, the weather changes,, the flowers fade, the fung come out … I click them all. But fewer folks get down on their knees to look for the fungi obscured by the brambles and fallen leaves, so I share the photos for those who mightn’t otherwise see.
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Kink! Ha ha ha!
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Thank you, Dale. And I’m not going to deny the possibilty of a kink. But it’s not for fungi. 🙂
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Buahahaha!! No wonder I love you! 😁
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I thank you for a big grin today!
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Excellent! I like that!
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Fungi are wonderful things and there’s been more about than usual recently.
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There;s a trend to leave wind-blown trees and branches instead of tidying them away; this encourages the woodeating fungi. That’s one reason. The warm and wet climate helps as well. Possibly the drive away from chemical farming and gardening might help, though that depends on where you live. Or maybe we’re just more aware.
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I love your fungi fotos!
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I thank you, Dale, my biggest fungi-fan.
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I’ll take the part…
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Second big grin today!
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😁😁😘
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Interesting, that top/right layer really does look like it’s trying to camouflage itself against the wood! So are the top layers the older ones and the new growths always come out on the bottom?
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I would say that top layer is the older, and itself now in decay. Though they don’t grow piggy-back, one on another. They grow outward. That white border is the new growth. But also I think they grow from the place of attachment. At least, that bit tends to change colour in the growing season.
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Ah, that makes sense. thanks!
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Always happy to be helpful. Especially to someone with a developing interest in fungi, But always remember, I’m not an expert.
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You are expert enough for my purposes. After all, as we’ve already established, neither of us is planning on *eating* any of these mushrooms!
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Oh, horror at the thought! Yet I do worry than someone might google a particular fungi I have named, and oops … know what I mean. And our posts are subject to the google search-bots (are they still called that?) which is why my Chap in the Red Cap, from way back in (I think) 2014, still get hits. One assume by people seeking out Fly Agaric.
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Natural camouflage!
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I have noticed that many of the fungi do blend rather well into their environment. For example, very easy to miss the autumn fungi, their caps share colour with the fallen leaves around them. Though there are exceptions. And they tend to be poisonous. Is this an example of fungi evolution, I wonder.
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Poisonous equals survival! ;-0
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For the fungus, yes, but not for the ingestor.
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Yup! 🙂
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