http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/d6975da386_1.22MB

The linked picture is posted on behalf of Spider who is currently outside
making the most of the clement weather.

A few years ago she transplanted into a pot a wind- or bird- sown Birch
seedling.
Now it needs to be moved, but on removing the pot a number of fungal
fruiting bodies were revealed.
The gills are light coloured and it has no particular smell.

Can anyone advise please whether this is harmful or not? Spider is always
cautious about honey fungus because we have had it in the garden before.

Many thanks

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:25:04 +0100, RG wrote:

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/d6975da386_1.22MB

The linked picture is posted on behalf of Spider who is currently outside
making the most of the clement weather.

A few years ago she transplanted into a pot a wind- or bird- sown Birch
seedling.
Now it needs to be moved, but on removing the pot a number of fungal
fruiting bodies were revealed.
The gills are light coloured and it has no particular smell.

Can anyone advise please whether this is harmful or not? Spider is always
cautious about honey fungus because we have had it in the garden before.

Many thanks


Spider's obviously let the fly loose . Sorry but clicking the link
isn't showing anything up for me other than a load of ad-type text so
can't comment on your (supposed) pic. But here's a link to the RHS
page on honey fungus which might help you to at least (I hope) rule
honey fungus out as the problem.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?PID=180

Cheers
Jake
==============================================
Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.

www.rivendell.org.uk

In article op.v08tb2segkcl5l@home1, RG wrote:

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/d6975da386_1.22MB

The linked picture is posted on behalf of Spider who is currently outside
making the most of the clement weather.

A few years ago she transplanted into a pot a wind- or bird- sown Birch
seedling.
Now it needs to be moved, but on removing the pot a number of fungal
fruiting bodies were revealed.
The gills are light coloured and it has no particular smell.

Can anyone advise please whether this is harmful or not? Spider is always
cautious about honey fungus because we have had it in the garden before.

Well, it's definitely not THAT! I can't tell you what it is or
how it grows, but I generally advise not worrying. Even if
fungi grow on a plant, they are quite likely to be effectively
harmless or even beneficial. And many grow on other things in
the soil.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article ,
Keith Cunningham wrote:

It'll almost certainly be on this site somewhere,
http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ , but there's a lot of stuff to rake
through.

You can't identify fungi like that from pictures alone. Sorry.
At the very least, you need the details of their stem, gills and
cap and spore colour - and, for reliable indentification, often
spore shape (which needs a microscope).

Even when I did a fair amount of this, there were some where I
just had to give up because I lacked the last.

There are exceptions, but that picture isn't one.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"RG" wrote in message newsp.v08tb2segkcl5l@home1...
http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/d6975da386_1.22MB

The linked picture is posted on behalf of Spider who is currently outside
making the most of the clement weather.



A few years ago she transplanted into a pot a wind- or bird- sown Birch
seedling.
Now it needs to be moved, but on removing the pot a number of fungal
fruiting bodies were revealed.
The gills are light coloured and it has no particular smell.

Can anyone advise please whether this is harmful or not? Spider is always
cautious about honey fungus because we have had it in the garden before.

Many thanks



It'll almost certainly be on this site somewhere,
http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ , but there's a lot of stuff to rake
through.

In article ,
Spider wrote:

Thanks for that link, Jake. Fortunately, the lack of mushroom odour
relieved my suspicions somewhat, but having had HF in the garden before
(indeed, it is in a number of gardens in our road), I was concerned,
particularly since Birch is susceptible to it.

Well, yes, but don't panic over it. If it was a tenth as lethal as
the uninformed press made out, we wouldn't have any old woodlands!
Birch is the number one tree for mycorrhizal associations, and is
always a bit problematic in rich soils, which makes it VERY hard
to tell whether a fungus on its roots is friend or foe.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 03/09/2011 19:03, Jake wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:25:04 +0100, wrote:

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/d6975da386_1.22MB

The linked picture is posted on behalf of Spider who is currently outside
making the most of the clement weather.

A few years ago she transplanted into a pot a wind- or bird- sown Birch
seedling.
Now it needs to be moved, but on removing the pot a number of fungal
fruiting bodies were revealed.
The gills are light coloured and it has no particular smell.

Can anyone advise please whether this is harmful or not? Spider is always
cautious about honey fungus because we have had it in the garden before.

Many thanks


Spider's obviously let the fly loose . Sorry but clicking the link
isn't showing anything up for me other than a load of ad-type text so
can't comment on your (supposed) pic. But here's a link to the RHS
page on honey fungus which might help you to at least (I hope) rule
honey fungus out as the problem.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?PID=180

Cheers
Jake
==============================================
Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.

www.rivendell.org.uk


Thanks for that link, Jake. Fortunately, the lack of mushroom odour
relieved my suspicions somewhat, but having had HF in the garden before
(indeed, it is in a number of gardens in our road), I was concerned,
particularly since Birch is susceptible to it.

As to letting the fly loose:~), be sure he is on a long strand of sticky
silk. Such a nice, juicy victim isn't going to get away that easily!

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On 03/09/2011 19:05, wrote:
In articleop.v08tb2segkcl5l@home1, wrote:

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/d6975da386_1.22MB

The linked picture is posted on behalf of Spider who is currently outside
making the most of the clement weather.

A few years ago she transplanted into a pot a wind- or bird- sown Birch
seedling.
Now it needs to be moved, but on removing the pot a number of fungal
fruiting bodies were revealed.
The gills are light coloured and it has no particular smell.

Can anyone advise please whether this is harmful or not? Spider is always
cautious about honey fungus because we have had it in the garden before.

Well, it's definitely not THAT! I can't tell you what it is or
how it grows, but I generally advise not worrying. Even if
fungi grow on a plant, they are quite likely to be effectively
harmless or even beneficial. And many grow on other things in
the soil.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Hi Nick,

Yes, I've come to that realisation based on lack of mushroom odour
alone. Alas, my nose isn't very useful atm so I borrowed RG's.

I'm generally pleased and interested to see fungi of all sorts; it's
just the dreaded HF that sends cold shivers down my spine! I'll try and
do a spore print, if it's not too late, but comparing colour
descriptions of spores is, I find, rather confusing. Nevertheless, I'll
have a go.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On 04/09/2011 08:56, Keith Cunningham wrote:
wrote in message newsp.v08tb2segkcl5l@home1...
http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/d6975da386_1.22MB

The linked picture is posted on behalf of Spider who is currently outside
making the most of the clement weather.



A few years ago she transplanted into a pot a wind- or bird- sown Birch
seedling.
Now it needs to be moved, but on removing the pot a number of fungal
fruiting bodies were revealed.
The gills are light coloured and it has no particular smell.

Can anyone advise please whether this is harmful or not? Spider is always
cautious about honey fungus because we have had it in the garden before.

Many thanks



It'll almost certainly be on this site somewhere,
http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ , but there's a lot of stuff to rake
through.


Thanks for that, Keith. I'll have a look. Just as well spiders have
eight eyes!

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:18:55 +0100, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:

Thanks Mr Spider. I'd suggest that using a photo posting site such as
Flickr or Photobucket (and there are loads of others which other
posters will probably recommend) is better - we tend to ignore "click
to download" links because we never know what we will end up
downloading.


Yes I'm sorry about that Jake. I was already 'in' that site for another
purpose so it was easiest at the time to push that picture the same way.
If there is a next time I'll use Photobucket.

You know, I've often wondered why female spiders always seem to be
bigger than the males. But that's another topic! ))

Being bigger makes it easier to despatch the males after mating, if they
are not satisfied with the performance....

On 03/09/2011 22:18, Jake wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:41:21 +0100, wrote:
(snip)
Thanks Mr Spider. I'd suggest that using a photo posting site such as
Flickr or Photobucket (and there are loads of others which other
posters will probably recommend) is better - we tend to ignore "click
to download" links because we never know what we will end up
downloading.

Do you always check to see what you are downloading when you click on
the photo at those sites? Because you are actually downloading a file
to your computer to view it.

At least with a button marked "click to download" you know clearly that
something is being downloaded to your computer.

--

Jeff

On 04/09/2011 13:38, RG wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:18:55 +0100, JakeNospam@invalid wrote:

Thanks Mr Spider. I'd suggest that using a photo posting site such as
Flickr or Photobucket (and there are loads of others which other
posters will probably recommend) is better - we tend to ignore "click
to download" links because we never know what we will end up
downloading.

Yes I'm sorry about that Jake. I was already 'in' that site for another
purpose so it was easiest at the time to push that picture the same way.
If there is a next time I'll use Photobucket.

Why? I had been looking at numerous photosharing sites and rejected
them all because of their sign-up requirements or lack of copyright
clarity. And I don't want to give them my email address (I guess I
could use a disposable one, but not all are accepted) as I don't want
endless spam. So I couldn't believe my luck when I came across your
link. Add to that the fact that myfreefilehosting also allows other
type of file to be uploaded. And no email address of any sort required.

--

Jeff

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:29:18 +0100, Jeff Layman
wrote:

On 03/09/2011 22:18, Jake wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:41:21 +0100, wrote:
(snip)
Thanks Mr Spider. I'd suggest that using a photo posting site such as
Flickr or Photobucket (and there are loads of others which other
posters will probably recommend) is better - we tend to ignore "click
to download" links because we never know what we will end up
downloading.

Do you always check to see what you are downloading when you click on
the photo at those sites? Because you are actually downloading a file
to your computer to view it.

At least with a button marked "click to download" you know clearly that
something is being downloaded to your computer.

Yes. If I'm clicking a JPG link and the file isn't a JPG or the site
link isn't to the site I'm expecting I rely on my AVS/Firewall/browser
protection to tell me (assuming the rollover messages appearing as I
point to the link don't alert me before I click). Something has to get
through the hardware firewall at the router as well as the software
one on my desktop. The decent photo-hosting sites will actually detect
an upload of (say) an EXE anyway.

On the other hand, if I click a link to download an unspecified file,
on a site that hosts any type of file, I don't know what I'm getting.
Whatever file type comes down, the system assumes I want it and so
will only run the standard anti-virus check on it.

Cheers
Jake
==============================================
Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.

www.rivendell.org.uk

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:30:58 +0100, Jeff Layman
wrote:

On 04/09/2011 13:38, RG wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:18:55 +0100, JakeNospam@invalid wrote:

Thanks Mr Spider. I'd suggest that using a photo posting site such as
Flickr or Photobucket (and there are loads of others which other
posters will probably recommend) is better - we tend to ignore "click
to download" links because we never know what we will end up
downloading.

Yes I'm sorry about that Jake. I was already 'in' that site for another
purpose so it was easiest at the time to push that picture the same way.
If there is a next time I'll use Photobucket.

Why? I had been looking at numerous photosharing sites and rejected
them all because of their sign-up requirements or lack of copyright
clarity. And I don't want to give them my email address (I guess I
could use a disposable one, but not all are accepted) as I don't want
endless spam. So I couldn't believe my luck when I came across your
link. Add to that the fact that myfreefilehosting also allows other
type of file to be uploaded. And no email address of any sort required.


I use myfreefilehosting for the very reasons you mention.

But when unloading a picture with a request for help, it seems only
reasonable to use a site that is familiar and convenient to the people I'm
hoping will see the picture and respond.

If Photobucket is accepted by the very helpful posters here, I will use
it. Copyright isn't an issue, and I've used Photobucket before without
giving my real email.