This tree has now been demolished and the death of the fine fungus will surely follow. I must check next time I am there how dead all the twigs are, presently piled up to the right of the picture. Was there just cause for this destruction?
I had also thought to check the original posting, but strenuous efforts at searching both the blogs themselves and their word copies has failed to turn the thing up. All very frustrating as I thought it had been clearly marked 'spongiferous benefitus' or perhaps 'benefitus spongiferous', which one might have thought was a clear enough marker, but it isn't.
Some time later
The offending post has now been tracked down using the search term 'massif' in the other place, that is to say http://www.pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/. Success was due to consulting an atlas about Rumania, which country, I was sure, rightly as it turned out, was connected to the post in question. Gazing at the loop of the Carpathians running around Transylvania associated to massif (probably not the correct term from a geographical point of view) and there we were.
A post from 2nd September 2011, which does not appear if you ask to see that month and which did not, in consequence make it to the word copy where my searching was industrious and ought, otherwise, to have worked. I think it fell off the end: that month is too long to be displayed on one page but the template, unlike that here, does not include a 'older posts' click, with the result that the beginnings of months are apt to be inaccessible, except to search. And then you are subject to the vagaries of search: I am sure, for example, that I did ask for spongiferus (neither Blogger nor Windows search recognise italics) (amongst other spellings) before and failed to get anything, whereas now it produces the required result.
Furthermore, now I have the date, I can find my original copy of the picture of the fungus, one among four, from the old camera. Not practical to search for them before as each batch is in a separate (dated) folder and it would take far to long to eyeball them. Might have been successful had all the pictures been in the one folder, as they are with the new camera with its 'Camera roll' folder. Although, in this case, finding the picture would not have helped as the blog for the date in question was inaccessible, as explained above.
The target text which you cannot reach in the ordinary way reads 'A fine specimen of benefightus spongiferus snapped on an old oak tree at the Horton Arboretum. Thought to be native to the western foothills of the Transylvanian Massif. Rare otherwise' and search terms drawn from that text do now seem to work.
So still slightly frustrated. Moral: good testers keep good records.
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