Any ideas on this one?

[daltontrees]

A client tells me he knows what this fungus is, but I can't see it. Does anyone know without prompting? On a mid age beech popping out of decayed wood at 1m and again further up on what seems to be several openings on a discontinuous internal crack.

The white stuff is snow, obvoiusly, but it illustrates that this stuff is persisting despite some very very cold weather.

[slasherscot]

looks like merip to me...mr humphries will b along soon

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

it has the look of the greasy bracket aurantiporus fisillis, something not right though, this looks sturdy of flesh and perennial, would be hard to put climacodon on it, or even bjerkandera

[daltontrees]

Interesting candidate list so far Tony.

[dexta]

I'am sure I'am wrong but looking at the fungi app perenniporia fraxinea

[Glen Poole]

I'll have a guess at Trametes gibbosa

[daltontrees]

Thanks for suggestions.

Extra photos of pore surface taken under microscope.

I now don't think it can be P. fraxinea because it has fawn flesnh and is as touhg as old boots. I don't think it can be M. giganteus either, allteh other Meripilus nearby is mush. I took the pore surface pics to rule out Climacodon septontrionalis which has spikes rahter than pores. My original gues was B. adusta but the lack of any coloration of the pore surface. Ditto Aurantiporus which would have some pink coloration.

I have to say of all the suggestions it is looking more like Pseudotrametes (Trametes) gibbosa than anything else for flesh colour, texture, pore surface, season, host species. I haven't seen it stacked like this before though.

I have condemned the tree anyway due to its overall condition and position, so if I hear that it is being removed I will try and get some more data.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thanks for suggestions.

Extra photos of pore surface taken under microscope.

I now don't think it can be P. fraxinea because it has fawn flesnh and is as touhg as old boots. I don't think it can be M. giganteus either, allteh other Meripilus nearby is mush. I took the pore surface pics to rule out Climacodon septontrionalis which has spikes rahter than pores. My original gues was B. adusta but the lack of any coloration of the pore surface. Ditto Aurantiporus which would have some pink coloration.

I have to say of all the suggestions it is looking more like Pseudotrametes (Trametes) gibbosa than anything else for flesh colour, texture, pore surface, season, host species. I haven't seen it stacked like this before though.

I have condemned the tree anyway due to its overall condition and position, so if I hear that it is being removed I will try and get some more data.

 

gibossa has more blocky/angular pores in general not ruling it out, it cant be Bjerkandera Fumosa either the big bro of adusta, as there is no dark line above the pores

Edited March 30, 2013 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad