Comments on: Peziza arvernensis http://healing-mushrooms.net/archives/peziza-arvernensis.html Fri, 18 May 2012 09:09:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Derek Clauson. I.W.Sc Cert http://healing-mushrooms.net/archives/peziza-arvernensis.html#comment-1895 Derek Clauson. I.W.Sc Cert Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:01:31 +0000 http://healing-mushrooms.net/archives/peziza-arvernensis.html#comment-1895 In the many years I spent as a surveyor in the timber preservation industry and certified by IWSc I came across Peziza regularly. My observations based on those mainly structural surveys and under the heading habitat would be that the fruiting bodies are invariably found close to masonry and usually on or in the vicinity of bathrooms/showers and therefore soap. Actually I was quite convinced that soap in whatever ford was a major contributor to the germination and growth of Peziza. Now retired and wooded areas on a daily basis I have seen Peziza in other habitats. Derek Clauson. MIWSc The Blackheath Practice In the many years I spent as a surveyor in the timber preservation industry and certified by IWSc I came across Peziza regularly. My observations based on those mainly structural surveys and under the heading habitat would be that the fruiting bodies are invariably found close to masonry and usually on or in the vicinity of bathrooms/showers and therefore soap. Actually I was quite convinced that soap in whatever ford was a major contributor to the germination and growth of Peziza. Now retired and wooded areas on a daily basis I have seen Peziza in other habitats.

Derek Clauson. MIWSc
The Blackheath Practice

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