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href=3D"mailto:shermwms@eastlink.ca">Sherman Williams</a>&l --Apple-Mail-215--198937180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to everyone for the interesting and informative discussion. The fungus in question was in an area that had a lot of hemlock, and the stump could very easily been a hemlock as well. On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Sherman Williams wrote: > Thanks David, yes, I stand corrected. I should have reviewed my > resource; it too says <ganoderma = with shining skin>. So the > name nicely fits Patrick's fungus find, <the fungus with shining > skin that grows on hemlock> , especially if it was indeed on a > hemlock stump, as it most likely was. Any that I have seen, were on > hemlock. They make me imagine that someone just gave the fungus a > coat of varnish. > Sherman > > On Apr 10, 2012, at 7:31 PM, David & Alison Webster wrote: > >> Hi Sherman & All, Apr 10, 2012 >> Outer skin didn't sound quite right for Ganoderma so I looked >> it up on Wikipedia where Gano derma = Shining skin i.e. the derma >> refers to the varnished outer surface of the fungus not the long >> since obliterated epidermis of the tree, log or stump. >> >> It is indeed partial to Hemlock (I don't recall having seen it >> on anything else) but is apparently sometimes fonud on other >> conifers. >> >> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Sherman Williams >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 6:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Early-blooming plant and unusual fungus >> >> >> I meant to add in regards to DW's identification of Ganoderma >> tsugae, that the name relates to it being a fungus that is >> typically associated with Eastern Hemlocks. i.e. found on the outer >> skin (ganoderma) of hemlock (tsugae). Could you tell if the stump >> was a hemlock? Or were there hemlocks in the area? >> >> Sherman >> >> On Apr 8, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone: >>> >>> I went for a hike yesterday on the new community trail in >>> Avondale. It was the first time in a long while since I have such >>> large patches of juniper! Near the start of the trail was a stump >>> that had a fungus I have never seen growing out of it. In fact, on >>> first inspection, it looked like someone had made them out of >>> pewter and stuck them to the stump as a decoration. The effect was >>> heightened as the "stalks" were the same diameter, right to the >>> wood, as it didn't seem possible for it to be like that with no >>> disturbance in the wood, unless it was held on with a protruding >>> nail. They ever sounded hollow when tapped. >>> >>> The other odd item I came across was a shrub in full bloom. It was >>> waist high, and shaped almost like a candelabra, with the flowers >>> on vertical sections of branch. I have seen comments from people >>> that their daphne is in bloom in late winter, but never having >>> seen a daphne plant I was not sure if this was an example. The >>> plant was in an area that was growing in, so it's possible it may >>> have been part of a garden in the past. >>> >>> The pictures are at: >>> >>> http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Mushroom1.JPG >>> http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Mushroom2.JPG >>> >>> http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Shrub.JPG >>> >> >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2411/4924 - Release Date: >> 04/09/12 >> > = = ======================================================================== Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities = = ======================================================================== Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University = = ======================================================================== MAIL COURIER PO Box 15000 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada Canada = = ======================================================================== Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca = = ======================================================================== --Apple-Mail-215--198937180 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head><base href=3D"x-msg://68/"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; ">Thanks to everyone for the interesting and = informative discussion. The fungus in question was in an area that had a = lot of hemlock, and the stump could very easily been a hemlock as = well. <div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:02 = PM, Sherman Williams wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><base = href=3D"x-msg://68/"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = ">Thanks David, yes, I stand corrected. I should have reviewed my = resource; it too says <ganoderma =3D with shining = skin>. So the name nicely fits Patrick's fungus find, = <the fungus with shining skin that grows on hemlock> , especially = if it was indeed on a hemlock stump, as it most likely was. Any = that I have seen, were on hemlock. They make me imagine that someone = just gave the fungus a coat of varnish.<div> Sherman</div><div> = <br><div><div>On Apr 10, 2012, at 7:31 PM, David & Alison Webster = wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; =