Burr Oak Buttrotter

[treeseer]

These fb's halfway around a burr oak Q macrocarpa. Lightning just struck it, as if it did not have enough problems.

 

Older fb flat black very hard--woody. Younger fb's rounder and browner with top surface largely dissolved. Undersides show spores dark orange. Any ID IDeas?

 

The last pic is of a nearby maple hich seems to have similar issues.

[David Humphries]

Looks to me like Inonotus dryadeus.

 

But spore description would not fit, as dryadeus is white.

 

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[PhilBeech]

I would say Inonotus d. As well, found the same on several oaks with burrs yesterday...

[Fungus]

Looks to me like Inonotus dryadeus. But spore description would not fit, as dryadeus is white.

 

Conclusion : without microscopical identification, it's impossible to give the remnants of what once was a macrofungus a name.

[treeseer]

Conclusion : without microscopical identification, it's impossible to give the remnants of what once was a macrofungus a name.

Which is why i have bagged some up to take home to the mcroscope, in 5 days and 700 miles. Although a definite name may be hard to assign, it might be good to narrow the focus.

 

The black hard structures had me thinking Inonotus too, as well as the location in sinuses with buttresses still sounding solid. The maple is 50 feet downslope. The smell was crisp. side view of the fb looked and felt like wood grain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

whg

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

There is good adaption, the tree appears to be trying to adapt.

 

I think that something has caused a mis judgment on spore print.

[Fungus]

The black hard structures had me thinking Inonotus too, as well as the location in sinuses with buttresses still sounding solid. The maple is 50 feet downslope. The smell was crisp. side view of the fb looked and felt like wood grain.

 

Inonotus dryadeus on maple ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

first tree is oak, inonotus dryadeus i suspect

 

second tree is a maple and looks more like Kretzshmaria to me.