What's this?

[Tim Williams]

found this on a roadside ash covered in daldinia concentrica the tree is down for felling asap due to size and location. I found this bracket at the base of the tree and am a bit puzzled i suspected inonotus hispidus but am pretty sure it isn't as the bracket appears to have annual rings like ganoderma which was another suspect any help appreciated.

Edited March 8, 2009 by Monkey-D

[David Humphries]

Deffinately not hispidus, wrong location.

Most probably one of the Ganodermas.

G. applanatum is commonly associated as saprotrophic on dysfunctional wood, which is highly posible with the evidence of the Daldinia.

 

But what came first, the chicken or the egg?

 

 

 

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[Tim Williams]

Deffinately not hispidus, wrong location.

Most probably one of the Ganodermas.

G. applanatum is commonly associated as saprotrophic on dysfunctional wood, which is highly posible with the evidence of the Daldinia.

 

But what came first, the chicken or the egg?

 

 

 

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the daldinia only being on dead/dying timber covered large proportions of the tree however it appeared to radiate upward and outward from the point of the base where the bracket is growing. the position of the bracket was what suggested to me it wasn't hispidus and while ganoderma are more commonly found on beech I was drawn to that by it's appearance and the fact it appears to be perrenial.