Grateful for a steer in the right direction...

[armybloke]

Found this immature FFB on a very old Sycamore. It is buried in a butress and very difficult to get to. I took no sample as it is so young. I would be grateful if anyone could shed some light on to what I am looking at or likely to be looking at please? I have had a search on Dave's fungi directory but have come up with a blank!

[David Humphries]

I'll offer up Rigidoporus ulmarius, but I'm unfamiliar with Sycamore as being a host.

 

Pores surface doesn't look atypical, but that could be image quality or a contrast issue.

 

You need to get a slice really.

 

If flesh white & tubes cinamon, then I think it would be Rigi.

 

Keep us updated

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

I'll offer up Rigidoporus ulmarius

 

You could also consider : Oxyporus populinus, which sometimes is found on Sycamore in The Netherlands.

[armybloke]

I'll offer up Rigidoporus ulmarius, but I'm unfamiliar with Sycamore as being a host.

 

Pores surface doesn't look atypical, but that could be image quality or a contrast issue.

 

You need to get a slice really.

 

If flesh white & tubes cinamon, then I think it would be Rigi.

 

Keep us updated

 

 

 

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Will do and thanks for the direction

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Im with david on potential for rigidiporus ulmarius here, ive not come across Oxyporus in the U.K yet, and it aint like im not on the hunt for it!

[Fungus]

Im with david on potential for rigidiporus ulmarius here, ive not come across Oxyporus in the U.K yet, and it aint like im not on the hunt for it!

 

Tony,

And you're aware of the hidden life Oxyporus populinus lives and how hard it is to find one because of that and that it is easily mistaken for Trametes gibbosa (with green algae) in its first fruiting phase ?

After I detected my first one years ago and got to know its appearance, habitat, preferred locations (the western Dutch provinces) and hiding places, I have seen at least a dozen since, mostly between the buttresses of poplars, but also two times on Sycamore, once at the base of and once fruiting from a wound on the lower part of the trunk.