Another to ID please

[VixS]

This one has me completely flummoxed!

I remember seeing something like this when I was little and my Mum called it rust fungus... because this foray was an unexpected jaunt... I did not take my leatheramn - or sledge hammer - which is what would have been needed to shift this one!

It was solid - just like a lump of rusty metal welded onto the end grain of this felled oak.

any help would be appreciated!

Vix

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A young developing bracket which at the moment is too indistinguishable for me to guess at.

David

[mollisia]

Hallo,

this is Phellinus robustus.

best regards,
Andreas

[flaxton]

If it is Phellinus robustus it is a Red Data list species. It should be confirmed and recorded with BFRDBI or CATE. Well done.

Mal

[cybershot]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hallo,

this is Phellinus robustus.

best regards,
Andreas

How do you do it Andreas? I'm amazed that even with previous experience of the species you can tell from this photo - well done. This is on our Red Data List:

"Habitat: Parasitic. British material only on veteran oaks in parkland, planted avenues, or old woodland.

Notes: Known from Berkshire, Shropshire and South Hampshire. Probably a species complex."
(Ref: The BC)

[VixS]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hallo,

this is Phellinus robustus.

best regards,
Andreas

does that mean that this is the same but older/ more mature?



and these?

[flaxton]

Andreas,
For those of us trying in vain to learn what makes this so obviously Phellinus robustus rather than an imature Ganoderma or other Phellinus? Is it the substrate or just "the look"
Mal

[mollisia]

Hallo,

I would have never guessed that it could be a Red List species, it is very common in Germany. May be we have still enough older oaks here.

The picture shows a Phellinus, do you agree? And there is only one species on oak: Ph. robustus. The very hard and nearly unbreakable fruitbodies are also a good feature, only shared by Phellinus hartigii in that hardness.

best regards,
Andreas

[VixS]

I'll go get a sample tomorrow for true id.. where do I send it??

[cybershot]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hallo,

I would have never guessed that it could be a Red List species, it is very common in Germany. May be we have still enough older oaks here.

The picture shows a Phellinus, do you agree? And there is only one species on oak: Ph. robustus. The very hard and nearly unbreakable fruitbodies are also a good feature, only shared by Phellinus hartigii in that hardness.

best regards,
Andreas

I'm afraid, bearing prefixes such as 'provisional' and 'draft', without much progress in ten years or so, our Red Data List is not as accurate as it should be Andreas but there are only 38 records on national databases.