{"id":2837,"date":"2016-12-09T20:23:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2016-12-10T15:32:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T15:32:28","slug":"silverleaf-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2837","title":{"rendered":"Silverleaf Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Ackworth School, the pupils in the junior school enjoy their &#8220;Forest Schools&#8221; sessions in a small area of woodland within the school grounds. The gardeners have created a ring of seats for them by embedding sections of log into the ground.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2834\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2834\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2834\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-1a-600-x-400.jpg\" alt=\"Infected log\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-1a-600-x-400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-1a-600-x-400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-1a-600-x-400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infected log<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This morning, I noticed a colourful a colourful fungus growing on some of the logs.\u00a0 Trawling through my expensive books on fungi did not produce an identification but a post on Facebook drew a suggested ID within minutes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2835\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2835\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2835\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-2a-600-x-400.jpg\" alt=\"Silverleaf Fungus (Chondrostereum purpureum)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-2a-600-x-400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-2a-600-x-400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-2a-600-x-400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silverleaf Fungus (Chondrostereum purpureum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The suggestion, which looks good, is that the fungus is silverleaf fungus (Chondrostereum purpureum). I&#8217;ve heard the name before because of the disease &#8211; silver leaf &#8211; that it causes on cherry trees. One or two ornamental cherry trees growing in the school grounds have died recently, so it is possible that the logs are from those trees.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2836\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2836\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2836\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-3a-600-x-400.jpg\" alt=\"Silverleaf fungus (Chondrostereum purpureum)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-3a-600-x-400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-3a-600-x-400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chondrostereum-purpureum-3a-600-x-400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silverleaf fungus (Chondrostereum purpureum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Ackworth School, the pupils in the junior school enjoy their &#8220;Forest Schools&#8221; sessions in a small area of woodland within the school grounds. 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