Fungal Frangipane?
I have a beautiful unusual Ash Tree in the garden. One half is a weeping variety grafted on to a standard Ash. It has been such a feature over the last 12 years, since I moved here.
Sadly over the last 18 months the "Weeping Ash" has died away leaving all its weeping branches bare of those tendrils of leaves, due to Ash die back. The standard half of the tree is still healthy and thriving with verdant leaves.
I called a tree surgeon to come and arrange for the weeping side to be cut down and as he was inspecting it we found these strange fungi in one of the tree's hollows. He said he had never seen anything like them before.
I contacted the British Mycological Society and sent then this image. They came back and said they were probably "Hemistropharia albocrenulata", but in any event they actually looked like the small coconut sponge cakes my grandma used to make years ago! They did look to have a sweet coating, but you wouldn't want to eat these!!
Fungal Frangipane?
I have a beautiful unusual Ash Tree in the garden. One half is a weeping variety grafted on to a standard Ash. It has been such a feature over the last 12 years, since I moved here.
Sadly over the last 18 months the "Weeping Ash" has died away leaving all its weeping branches bare of those tendrils of leaves, due to Ash die back. The standard half of the tree is still healthy and thriving with verdant leaves.
I called a tree surgeon to come and arrange for the weeping side to be cut down and as he was inspecting it we found these strange fungi in one of the tree's hollows. He said he had never seen anything like them before.
I contacted the British Mycological Society and sent then this image. They came back and said they were probably "Hemistropharia albocrenulata", but in any event they actually looked like the small coconut sponge cakes my grandma used to make years ago! They did look to have a sweet coating, but you wouldn't want to eat these!!