Perenniporia fraxinea

This beast's been sitting down our yard for a couple of months.

I reckon its the biggest bracket in the world...

...well Norfolk then.

I should have stuck something in there for scale but that tub in the back is a two litre spill kit.

(Apologies for the amazing camera work.)

thats a pretty cool bracket, would be good if u could get a better quality pic mate

I'll take another tomorrow. We cut it in half with a chainsaw but the overall size is still visible.

This beast's been sitting down our yard for a couple of months.

I reckon its the biggest bracket in the world...

Did you ever see the close up photos of the Perenniporia bracket that was responsible for the decay in the 'Birmingham Ash' that killed 3 people in 1999? that looked like a massive bracket.

No photos of the bracket but here is the story -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1489072.stm

I've seen some pretty big Ganoderma brackets, got a couple myself from about 7/8 years ago I'll dig them out and take some photos.

It might sound strange, but found Perenniopora fruiting on the branch of an old oak-

There was a hollow buttress root, with a column of dysfunction up the stem to the bracket on the branch.

Here's what we believe to be Perenniporia fraxinea on Beech (!) from today

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=6233

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