Help with fungi id

[simonm]

Ganoderma? extensive decay at the base of the tree which has caused it to fail .

[Chris at eden]

Looks about right to me. Nice bottle butt symptoms.

[David Humphries]

Certainly Ganoderma

 

but difficult to ascertain which one between applanatum/australe without looking at spore under a microscope.

 

It 'looks' to have the morphological characteristics of applanatum to my eye.

 

 

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[Ian C]

  David Humphries said:

Certainly Ganoderma

 

but difficult to ascertain which one between applanatum/australe without looking at spore under a microscope.

 

It 'looks' to have the morphological characteristics of applanatum to my eye.

 

 

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Hi David any thought on this little fellow? About 4ft up a mature Beech.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Hi Ian, hope yer well.

 

Is it an emergent Ganoderma' appen?

 

Cheers,

Paul

 

PS the attached may be "of interest"

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[AA Teccie (Paul)]

  simonm said:

Ganoderma? extensive decay at the base of the tree which has caused it to fail .

 

Saw something very similar in a woodland in Burnley just recently whilst delivering a Tree Inspection course, riddled with Kretzschmaria / Ustulina too...maybe worth a closer look.

 

Cheers..

Paul