This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
What am I?
Heather Michaels
Posts: 328
Hello everyone, I would appreciate it if someone could identify the fungi growing out of the bark at the base of a rather grand, old and beautiful Chestnut tree that grows in my garden. Its sprung up rapidly over the last couple of days. I know nothing about fungus (other than the fact that various different varieties grow in different places around my garden each autumn), but I know that honey fungus is not good news. Is this honey fungus?
Pics below of the fungus, one I think is a little blurry but hopefully you can id from these (if the pics work, having lots of trouble today).
Thanks in advance
Heather
Fingers crossed these work and you're not looking at a little blue box with a question mark in it!
0
Posts
I can see the pics ok; I'm afraid that's the good news
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh I don't like the sound of that Dove. Is it Honey Fungus?
I fear that's HF. But any fungus growing out of a live tree is not good news in the long term
In the sticks near Peterborough
Dammit! I just had this awful sinking feeling when I saw it. OK thanks to both of you, I will be mentioning it to the landlady when I see her, and muse over the possibility of a beautiful, grand, 40 odd foot tall Chestnut tree (which perversely this year is absolutely bursting with Chestnuts) having to come down in the not too distant future. Not a happy bunny
My thoughts exactly, nut. Sorry it's such bad news Heather.
Will do Edd. Will post tomorrow along with the pics of my oak leaves! Thank you again, you are very knowledgeable. I am learning but I have a long way to go.
Thanks Bob, am feeling a little down about it right now
I'll have to watch out for the fruiting bodies on mine. If I don't pick them off they collapse in a black mess all over the cyclamen
In the sticks near Peterborough
Edd
Pansyface - the Chestnut grows and towers above a very large Japonica (variety escapes me just now) which isn't doing well. Didn't last year and is doing even worse this year. Could that be affected by the Fungus? Or could it be just the fact that its so close to the tree that it isn't getting enough nutrients do you think?
Nut - all the neighbourhood mice chewed through all of my Cyclamen and murdered them
Most woody plants can be attacked by HF, some less so than others. I don't know where japonica fits. tbh I don't know what japonica is.
Mice seem to prefer my crocuses to the cyclamen Heather.
In the sticks near Peterborough