Id on a fungi on scots pine

[Danavan]

Still managed to finish the post; a true arbtalker!

 

A true doughnut! Big window! Double glazed & V ££££ I think...

 

WAR WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR

[Danavan]

Thanks again Gerrit. Had some time to look up your suggestions & from the pic's & descriptions I have found they look like Lentinus lepideus ( the train wrecker) as it is known in north America for some reason.

 

I also see it has been re-named to Neolentinus lepideus.

[Fungus]

they look like Lentinus lepideus ( the train wrecker) as it is known in north America for some reason.

 

In Dutch it's called the Dwarsliggerzwam (= lintel or crossbeam fungus), because it often fruits on wooden crossbeams under rails of railways, in which it causes a extensive brownrot, so that is why it's called the train wrecker in the USA.

[Danavan]

thanks Gerrit, enlightening as usual