Help with ID, please

[solus]

Went for a walk in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, yesterday (20th November) and found these, which I would appreciate some help in identifying, please.

I do have a sort of an idea - or several - but have frequently (er... usually!) been wrong so would rather not put ideas into anyone's head at this stage.

First one:
Growing on a small grassy bank beside a rough gravelly area until recently used for car parking, in a sort of clearing area with rough grass and scattered oak and beech trees and not far fom mature conifers. I'm hopeless with smell but it was "mushroomy". There were half a dozen or so a loose group.




Second one - a white "rubbery" bracket growing on the roots of a long-fallen small tree which (from the similarly-sized trees immediately surrounding it) could have been either birch or some sort of pine. I realise that not being able to identifiy the host species is no help at all! When I broke off a piece, to photograph the pore surface, it was rather unpleasantly wet and I thought I could see a faint line of blue colour at the base of the pore tubes... but I can't see this in the picture. Again, there was a vaguely mushroomy sort of smell.






I am seriously considering going through my "Fungus Fotos" folder and re-submitting some of my photos from 2006 (when I first got interested in this mushrooming lark) which I know are mis-identified (by me, I hasten to add!) or remain unidentified! I was very keen to have some sort of label for them then, although I have subsequently learned from everyone here that that is often nigh on impossible!

[KeenTeen17]

2) old chicken of the woods?

[solus]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

2) old chicken of the woods?

????
Definitely not that!

[Chris Yeates]

hi

#1 possibly one of the bewildering array of late season Clitocybe species, with to my mind, often highly subjective separating characters - hence I tend to leave them alone

#2 possibly a Postia sp. (knowing the substrate would be useful - as you have guessed)

I am really not sure where the Chicken of the Woods suggestion came from KT

regards

Chris

[KeenTeen17]

I uploaded a photo for ID ages ago that was confirmed as an old chicken of the woods. It was white and faded like the one in the photo.

with the revelation of postia sp. could it be maybe P. tephroleuca

[KeenTeen17]

Just found the photo

This is the thread I did
Woodland & Dune Mushrooms (ID)

[NickCantle]

Well do you know what? Looking at the first image, I'd say that KT's suggestion of Laetiporus sulphureus is pretty damn good- He's correct that they do discolour to this extent, particularly when rained on and the structure of the bracket is very similar to that I would expect to see of this species. OK, the second photograph might eliminate thoughts of this species, but I support KT's suggestion and plucking up the courage to say so So well in KT.

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

Well do you know what? Looking at the first image, I'd say that KT's suggestion of Laetiporus sulphureus is pretty damn good- He's correct that they do discolour to this extent, particularly when rained on and the structure of the bracket is very similar to that I would expect to see of this species. OK, the second photograph might eliminate thoughts of this species, but I support KT's suggestion and plucking up the courage to say so So well in KT.

the bracket I sent in for ID on the woodland dune fungi thread?

[NickCantle]

No you divvy, Solus' image in this thread

[KeenTeen17]

sorry!