Daldinia Fissa.

[JohnP]

I hope I have the correct ID.

 

 

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100
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[NannyFerret]

I've never seen those before. They look as if the might be nasty.

[JohnP]

I've never seen those before. They look as if the might be nasty.

 

Tina... it's the first time I come across them... stange things one comes across sometimes... isn't nature wonderful creating so many different creatures and plants etc.

[fuzzyedges]

Are you sure the image dosnt want rotating through 90 and the little brown things are just before they are placed in a poly bag and left around the outside of a waste bin

 

Just kidding but you have to admit they aint cute

[NannyFerret]

They look a bit like those truffles that can be dug up out of the ground, don't they?

[annie]

john, check out daldinia concentrica..common name king alfred's cake, 

 

daldinia fissa grows on burnt wood.....gorse in particular....

 

either way it is a daldinia of sorts...!

 

i love fungi, some are so weird and others very pretty. amazing how many are actually edible, not that i even touch them when i come across them. 

[JohnP]

Thank you annie!  I was close...

[annie]

what a team we are xxx

[JohnP]

what a team we are xxx

 

BRILLIANT ...that's what we are...

[Guest DaveW]

If you want to be pedantic the generic name always starts with a capital letter = Daldinia and subgeneric names always with a lower case one = concentrica and strictly speaking they should be rendered in italics = Daldinia concentrica. However I am usually too lazy to bother unless it is for a specialist journal, but capitalised generic names and lower case sub specific names are required under the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN Rules) to avoid genera being mixed up with species in print.  However I don't think many, me included, are familiar with more than a fraction of the rules dealing with naming plants.  Plus to add to the confusion animals have their own naming code which often differs from botany.  For instance you can name a toad Bufo bufo which is a tautonym with the specific name exactly matching the generic name in zoology, but that is not permitted in botany:-

 

"The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in the Jujube Ziziphus zizyphus)."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautonyms

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomenclature_for_algae,_fungi,_and_plants

 

Nobody ever said regulations were simple, or always logical!  

[annie]

but i ain't perdantic dave.........i ain't posh enough!