Perenniporia fraxinea

[sloth]

What'll its fate be? I see a path...

[David Humphries]

7 hours ago, sloth said:

What'll its fate be? I see a path...

Surprisingly stable at this point, but due to paths either side it's now down to a live standing habitrunk.

 

 

[Stubby]

19 hours ago, David Humphries said:

Fair girdling of P. fraxinea around the entire base of this ash.

 

 

 

Similar thing here David . Twin stemmed Ash , close to foot path and fungi girdled just above the root flair . Is it the same fungi ?

[David Humphries]

1 hour ago, Stubby said:

Similar thing here David . Twin stemmed Ash , close to foot path and fungi girdled just above the root flair . Is it the same fungi ?

Yep, I'd imagine so.

 

But it's always worth taking a slice to check flesh texture and colour/depth of the tubes to rule out similar species.

[sloth]

Looks good David. Habitrunk, I might have to use that!

[David Humphries]

Oddity fruiting on heavily decayed roots equidistant between two birch trees.

(possible that there may have been another species there in the past but I have no recolection of ash)

This bulbose growth has its pores on the surface facing upward.

 

Key'd out in terms of flesh and pores (no spore present) but I have not seen this before so reluctant to say for sure its Perenni.