Bracket fungi for iD, please

[solus]

I feel I should know this but so far it has defeated me. Please can someone help?

There were several of these brackets growing on the dead or almost dead trunk of what I think is a Willow which was growing on the (other!) side of and rooted into a water-filled ditch by a track on the Severn flood plain at Ashleworth Ham in Gloucestershire. This area regularly floods in autumn and winter (and in 2007 in summer too!). I'm afraid this was the best pic I could manage as I couldn't cross the deep, wet ditch but I think the pores can just about be seen at the edges of the brackets on the left. I took the photo on 2nd January.



Thanks!

[KeenTeen17]

looks like old daedaleopsis confragosa

[solus]

I'm not sure - they didn't actually look particulalry old: the gills were creamy off-white colour and the upper surface was sort of zoned with whitish and brown bands. The Daedaleopsis confragosa I've seen up to now have been much thinner and darker red on top...

Here is a closer crop from another photo.
Please does anyone else have any ideas?

[KeenTeen17]

your right. On closer inspection these look like inonotus dryadeus

[mollisia]

Hallo,

I think the closer picture even more looks like KT's first idea. I think this is Daedaleopsis confragosa. They look like that before they start to get more and more red. And they can become quite big and thick when they grow on stems, whereas they are of course small and thin when growing on twigs. The less substrate the tinier the fruitbody.

best regards,
Andreas

[solus]

Thanks Andreas! That tree trunk was quite a substantial substrate! Fungi are soooo confusing.

KT - regarding your Inonotus dryadeus suggestion: surely the pores on my specimens were far too big for that and anyway they were on a Willow, not an Oak?