Two Alders. Two different fungi. Help.

[Matthew Arnold]

Whilst going site checks i did a quick scan of the trees. I noticed on one of roadside Alders it had some small brackets growing out of an old wound. The tree has large epicormic growths that are only about 6 years old. It hasnt been showing many signs of distress (apart from epicormic growth). The first 7 pictures are of the first tree. The second tree is next to a well used pedestrian bridge. It is showing signs of dieback in the crown. I think the fungi is of the Phellinus family but not sure which one. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

P.S. Sorry for the amount of pics for people to look through.

[slack ma girdle]

At a guess the first is Ganoderma (spelt wrong)

[David Humphries]

I'd imagine the first set are Inonotus radiatus - the Alder bracket

 

& the second may be just a malformed Gano.

 

 

 

 

 

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