Mystery Fungi on Horse Chestnut

[Stuart Picken]

Hi folks,

Anyone want to take a punt at this fungi? Not a good sample, but that's what there was! Dry, no real smell (but then i'm not long over covid, so maybe there was actually...), about 1m up the stem.

Found on a horse chestnut that is in pretty catastrophic decline. Still a decent amount of healthy looking canopy, but with very large areas of necrotic bark and some big chunks of deadwood. 

 

Edited June 8, 2022 by Stuart Picken

[Paul in the woods]

Not the clearest pic but it could be an old dogs vomit slime mould, Fuligo septica, or similar.

[slack ma girdle]

I would go for False puffball