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lsms
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Chaga and Gym-liota?
#19078999 - 11/03/13 06:44 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Suspect Chaga: Growing from yellow birch, was extremely hard, but some bits would crumble off. I gave it a roundhouse kick to try and knock it off and just bruised my heel.

Pholiota with the spores washed off by rain? The cap is wet but not viscid. Around 4 inches in diameter No annulus on stem, brown bruising, uniform thickness.


Ganoderma applanatum

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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079008 - 11/03/13 06:48 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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2. i'd bet on Galerina...
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: bloodworm]
#19079028 - 11/03/13 07:00 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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That looks like chaga to me but the best way to tell is to cut off a piece and look at the inside.
I'd guess Cortinarius for two. Was it growing terrestrially?
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: Bobzimmer]
#19079036 - 11/03/13 07:06 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bobzimmer said:
I'd guess Cortinarius for two. Was it growing terrestrially?
good call.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: bloodworm]
#19079038 - 11/03/13 07:07 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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#2 had rusty brown spores and was growing clustered, at the trunk of a dead tree maple or oak most likely. I can upload more pictures of it if you would like?
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079051 - 11/03/13 07:09 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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please do. definitely sounding more like a Pholiota now.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: bloodworm]
#19079060 - 11/03/13 07:13 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I guess I deleted them, I'll run back up in the woods and snap some. Oh the joys of finding stuff 5 minutes from your house!
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079062 - 11/03/13 07:14 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's up to you. It might help us make more accurate guesses. I was just making a stab with the umbillicate cap and the gills are turning rusty. Corts don't usually grow clustered.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: Bobzimmer]
#19079137 - 11/03/13 07:37 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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This may will just make things more confusing. They are pretty well past their prime at this point.
Could the caps shape be from being smashed against the others? Most of the others don't have that umbillicate cap. One other did. The aborted pins look extra gymy to me for some reason.


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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079146 - 11/03/13 07:42 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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This cluster just screams Pholiota to me.... Most confusing find ever...
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079149 - 11/03/13 07:43 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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They're Pholiota due to the brownish spore print on the cap in the second pic. The cap shape is due to them being old.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: Bobzimmer]
#19079171 - 11/03/13 07:50 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sweet, thanks for the help! What should I be looking for when I cut into the chaga?
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079242 - 11/03/13 08:16 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nice pics and finds Lsms! Also I think youre right the last one looks like artists conk
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079250 - 11/03/13 08:21 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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lsms said: What should I be looking for when I cut into the chaga?
Should look something like this, brown / almost orange-ish color in parts.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: xfsketch]
#19079292 - 11/03/13 08:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks, I'm getting pretty good at crappy cell phone photos, it's like being the smartest kid on the short bus... I thought the first picture of it looked a little fishy. Pun intended. There was like 20 of them on that birch tree. You would of been in etching heaven. 
I am going to have to check back in with that suspect chaga, as soon as I find a machete or something that will cut it.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079327 - 11/03/13 08:48 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: lsms]
#19079407 - 11/03/13 09:13 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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lsms said: I am going to have to check back in with that suspect chaga, as soon as I find a machete or something that will cut it.
Try a chisel and hammer and pry bar. Chisel a channel around and then pop it off with the bar? More of a chance of getting it off in one big chunk rather than bits. That's easier to control than trying to whang at a bump on a tree with a machete, axe or hatchet.
But I've never found chaga, so this is an unproven method for that fungus. I sometimes carry a chisel, a small stubby hammer and a mini pry bar for other conks. I try not to sully the undersurace with my grubby paws and those tools are very helpful, but damned heavy.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: fry day]
#19079416 - 11/03/13 09:16 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Luckily this one isn't too far out there. I will try it and report back. Hopefully I am not just trying to pry a knot out of the tree.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: fry day]
#19079667 - 11/03/13 10:35 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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fry day said: Try a chisel and hammer and pry bar. Chisel a channel around and then pop it off with the bar? More of a chance of getting it off in one big chunk rather than bits. That's easier to control than trying to whang at a bump on a tree with a machete, axe or hatchet.
But I've never found chaga, so this is an unproven method for that fungus. I sometimes carry a chisel, a small stubby hammer and a mini pry bar for other conks. I try not to sully the undersurace with my grubby paws and those tools are very helpful, but damned heavy.
Yeah I agree I've found it easy to jam something in the side of it and pry, you can usually get the majority of it to pop off in one or two chunks.
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Re: Chaga and Gym-liota? [Re: Forrester]
#19083585 - 11/04/13 12:10 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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When I lived in and when I visit Vermont I have always used a big rock for chaga.
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