Some fungi from my garden

[Toadflax]

Found quite a few fungi whilst wandering around my garden this morning. I'm not particularly after IDs but if anyone wants to suggest if they are anything interesting, do let me know.


Geoff

 

[Jodie]

Wow you have a cool garden Geoff! I love the ones in the last picture - don't think I've
ever seen them before.

What's the pitting in the tree stump? It looks regularly patterned, is it natural?

 

[Toadflax]

I was wondering what sort of replies I'd get about the last set of mushrooms. I'll tell you where they came from later.

The stump is a large conifer that I had taken down last year that was getting too near the overhead power lines (and incidentally, shading large parts of the garden from the sun). The pitting is not natural. I drilled a lot of holes in it in the hope of advancing the rotting process. I'd be tempted to drop some spores from the large cluster of Honey Fungus that I found in the local woods a few weeks ago, but I'm concerned that it may spread to the other good trees in the garden.



Geoff

 

[John Fenna]

Am I right in thinking that the bottom picture is of "woodcarver gotbordum inediblis" - they certainly look a bit too woody to make tender eating........

 

[rich59]

I think the bottom one is laburnium turnum.

 

[Gwhtbushcraft]

the bottom one is beautiful, they look almost like they are wooden and turned on a lathe

 

[Gwhtbushcraft]

The stalk in the background looks a bit like a nail.

 

[Toadflax]

I have to confess that I didn't make the last ones - my wife bought them at a Woodland Festival near here a couple of months ago from someone who works up on the Ridgeway doing chainsaw carving. These ones must be round about 5-6" across.


Geoff

 

[Jodie]

Hah brilliant - I was fooled by the ones at the end Now I look at them a bit more
closely I see that the stalks are very thin, but they still look 'real' to me I have to say.

Nice thread

 

[Toadflax]

Hah brilliant - I was fooled by the ones at the end Now I look at them a bit more
closely I see that the stalks are very thin, but they still look 'real' to me I have to say.

Nice thread

Didn't mean to embarrass you on an open forum! It wasn't meant to be a trick photo, if you saw them in real life, you wouldn't have been fooled.


Geoff

 

[xylaria]

My dad played a trick on me when I first came back from from uni years ago. He put hemisphere shaped orange peel on sticks in the darkest part of the garden. He did fool me until I touched them. I was so embarrassed.
I like those wooden mushrooms I have carved some for friend with a dremel. They easy to make really. I have seen some of galerinas which are very realistic.

 

[Jodie]

Didn't mean to embarrass you on an open forum! It wasn't meant to be a trick photo, if you saw them in real life, you wouldn't have been fooled.


Geoff

Oh no harm done
They're very pretty!