Possible willow bracket

[watsthat]

I found some bracket fungi today and was quite surprised because they must be perennial and yet I`ve never noticed them before, even though I pass the site every week. There were 3 of them (2 mature ones and 1 new one), growing on a very old willow trunk that was quite rotten, (although still living), alongside a stream. I set off home expecting to ID my first willow bracket. After 2 hours scrutinising all available info and pictures, especially looking at brackets with very small pores and a whitish pore surface, I concluded that they probably were phellinus igniarius but could not completely discount; ganoderma sp or rigidoporus sp. Can anyone take this further?





Cheers

Pete

[Leif]

I think they are too pale for Phellinus, and I think you have found a Ganoderma species.