Fungi ID please

[button1803]

Hi all,

 

Please can someone shed some lights on what this fungi is and what adverse effects it would have on a beech tree/any tree if any please?

 

It has also spread through out the ivy and was on a dead felled beech stem too.

 

hope this all helps.

 

[the verminator]

ganoderma of some sort i reckon, i think it causes brown rot and can rot and can cause root rot. though i am expecting to be humiliated

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

ganoderma of some sort i reckon, i think it causes brown rot and can rot and can cause root rot. though i am expecting to be humiliated

 

ganos are white rot, and simaltaneous rot at that meaning it degrades lignin and cellulose/hemicellulose at roughly the same rate.

 

has a slightly blue tone to the crust and being beech this is most likely G. pfeifferi

[Fungus]

ganos are white rot, and simaltaneous rot at that meaning it degrades lignin and cellulose/hemicellulose at roughly the same rate.

 

Ganoderma species don't cause simultaneous white rot (or brown rot), but white rot with selective delignification.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ganoderma species don't cause simultaneous white rot (or brown rot), but white rot with selective delignification.

 

oops!