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Slo.: dieca tramovka - Habitat: Mixed wood, predominantely Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies, south oriented calcareous ground, half shade, partly protected from direct rain, average precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevation 950 m (3.100 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.- Substratum: South side of a partly rotten, debarked Picea abies stump. - Comment: This fungus has a distinctive pleasant aromatic smell.

Slo.: pisana ploskocevka - Habitat: on rotten wood of a deciduous tree, mixed forest, in shade, fairly humid

Slo.: brezova odpadljivka - Habitat: light primary wood on former pastures in a group of Betula pendula, slightly inclined mountain slope, southwest aspect; cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) bedrock; in half shade, quite humid place; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 500 m (1.650 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: dead standing and fallen trunks of Betula pendula as well as rarely on stumps. Comments: Birch (Betula pendula var. pendula) is not a very common tree in my surrounding. It appears only here and there, rarely in larger stands. However, wherever it grows Piptoporus betulinus is frequently present. Hence this polypore is quite common and easy to find. Piptoporus betulinus is an annual polypore but its dead sporocarps remain present sometimes several years, before they totally disintegrate. It is a very nice fungus, easy to recognize in spite of the fact that it appears in any imaginable shape and size. Its pilei have smooth, lacquer surface when young and very light context. It can scarcely be mistaken. The fungus is at first a parasite attacking only already weakened trees. Later it becomes saprophyte causing brown root of the wood. This means, it disintegrates mainly cellulose. The attacked wood looses much of its specific weight, sometimes even 70% of its initial value. The remaining brown lignin is often disintegrated by white root fungi cohabitating on the same trunks like Daedaleopsis confragosa, Daedaleopsis tricolor, Lenzites betulina and Fomes fomentarius (Ref.:1), which complete wood disintegration process. A piece of this species was carried by 'tzi', the 5.300 year old mummy of ice man found high in the Alps in 1991. For what purpose these people used it is not known with certainty. Many fruitbodies were present at the place of this observation. The largest one had 30 cm across. Ref.: (1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 1., Ulmer (2000), p 599. (2) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.2. Verlag Mykologia (1986)) p 318. (3) M. Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 316. (4) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 307.

young fungus

Slo.: pisana ploskocevka - Habitat: on rotten wood of a deciduous tree, mixed forest, in shade, fairly humid

Slo.: pisana ploskocevka - Habitat: on rotten wood of a deciduous tree, mixed forest, in shade, fairly humid

Slo.: pisana ploskocevka - Habitat: on rotten wood of a deciduous tree, mixed forest, in shade, fairly humid

Slo.: pisana ploskocevka - Habitat: on rotten wood of a deciduous tree, mixed forest, in shade, fairly humid

Slo.: pecljata zamazanka - syn.: Tremella recisa Ditmar - Habitat: modestly southeast inclined mountain slope, mixed wood, dominant Fagus Sylvatica, Picea abies; overgrown calcareous ground composed of old alluvial and glacial moraine scree, rocks and boulders, relatively warm and dry place, in shade, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-8 deg C, elevation 595 m (1.950 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: fallen Fagus sylvatica trunk; mostly still in bark in its late initial stage of disintegration. - Comments: Three sporocarps found growing close together; fresh fruitbodies pinkish-brown, oac651, after two days in refrigerator becoming olive-brown, oac734; fruit body dimensions up to 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm; clumps spreading flat over the substratum and attached to it only at isolated spots resembling rudimentary short 'stalks'; context quite firm, gelatinous; taste indistinctive, smell none; SP not obtained, only a few (12) spores have been found. This observation looks at macroscopic level like Exidia recisa, but microscopy doesn't confirm this determination. Spores (which may eventually origin from somewhere else?) do not fit expectations. I was also unable to find small, longitudinally septate, almost globose basidia, which are characteristic to this species (see Ref.: 3). The surface of the blobs looks like a hymenium with 'regular' basidia, however without sterigmata. Have no explanation. Hence, this determination can be wrong. - Spores smooth. Dimensions:9,4 [10,4 ; 11,2] 12,3 x 5,5 [6,1 ; 6,5] 7,1 microns, Q = 1,5 [1,7 ; 1,8] 1,9; N = 12; C = 95%; Me = 10,8 x 6,3 microns, Qe = 1,7. Olympus CH20, NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400x, in water, Congo red. AmScope MA500 digital camera. - Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJF - Ref.: (1) Personal communication with Mr. Anton Poler. (2) http://www.mycoquebec.org/bas.php?post=Exidia&l=r&nom=Exidia%20recisa%20/%20Exidie%20obconique&tag=Exidia%20recisa&gro=109 (3) J.Breitenbach, F.Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.2. VerlagMykologia (1984), p64.

Slo.: pecljata zamazanka - syn.: Tremella recisa Ditmar - Habitat: modestly southeast inclined mountain slope, mixed wood, dominant Fagus Sylvatica, Picea abies; overgrown calcareous ground composed of old alluvial and glacial moraine scree, rocks and boulders, relatively warm and dry place, in shade, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-8 deg C, elevation 595 m (1.950 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: fallen Fagus sylvatica trunk; mostly still in bark in its late initial stage of disintegration. - Comments: Three sporocarps found growing close together; fresh fruitbodies pinkish-brown, oac651, after two days in refrigerator becoming olive-brown, oac734; fruit body dimensions up to 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm; clumps spreading flat over the substratum and attached to it only at isolated spots resembling rudimentary short 'stalks'; context quite firm, gelatinous; taste indistinctive, smell none; SP not obtained, only a few (12) spores have been found. This observation looks at macroscopic level like Exidia recisa, but microscopy doesn't confirm this determination. Spores (which may eventually origin from somewhere else?) do not fit expectations. I was also unable to find small, longitudinally septate, almost globose basidia, which are characteristic to this species (see Ref.: 3). The surface of the blobs looks like a hymenium with 'regular' basidia, however without sterigmata. Have no explanation. Hence, this determination can be wrong. - Spores smooth. Dimensions:9,4 [10,4 ; 11,2] 12,3 x 5,5 [6,1 ; 6,5] 7,1 microns, Q = 1,5 [1,7 ; 1,8] 1,9; N = 12; C = 95%; Me = 10,8 x 6,3 microns, Qe = 1,7. Olympus CH20, NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400x, in water, Congo red. AmScope MA500 digital camera. - Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJF - Ref.: (1) Personal communication with Mr. Anton Poler. (2) http://www.mycoquebec.org/bas.php?post=Exidia&l=r&nom=Exidia%20recisa%20/%20Exidie%20obconique&tag=Exidia%20recisa&gro=109 (3) J.Breitenbach, F.Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.2. VerlagMykologia (1984), p64.