Cercis

The tree is located next to a kiddies nursery on a rather upmarket housing development. The tree is recommended for removal based on basal decay, Picus/resistograph confirm centralised area of decay at the base. The tree has developed good healthy buttressing all round(which hasn't been assessed or accounted for) which I think more than adequately compensates for the lack of centralised anchorage. My initial id of I. dryadeus is based on previous encounters of the desiccated fruit bodies and the buttress formation/beginnings of hollowing between the butresses displayed here.

Thanks for that.

The brackets didn't have the distinctive hard upper crust of G. resinaceum

Thanks Paul. G. australe or Inonotus?

All, I have a fungal ident dispute which I thought I'd throw out there to get a second opinion on. The attached pics are of the same fruit body, the pic of fresh bracket was taken last year and the degraded fruit body pic was taken a few days ago. The host is a fully mature turkey oak (pic also attached). I think the brackets are I. Dryadeus, the other party thinks it's Ganoderma spp. The fate of the tree rests on the conclusion! Thanks, Chris