Bracket ID Please

[GerryNick2]

Hi All

Seems a bit quite in the Fungi Forum at the moment so I thought I would slip these two in from the dont knows album to tax the brain. Brackets not my strong point nor anything is else come to that.





They were both found back end of August in the New Park Plantation area of the New Forest near Brockenhurst a wooded area consisting of mainly mature Oaks.

The First was 20cm across on a fallen deciduous tree, probably Oak.

The second was found on a rotting branch lying on the bottom of a dried up stream bed. Never fails to amaze me how the spores manage to survive under water only to emerge when the water dries up. This one was 15cm diameter.

Any suggestions as to ID would be more than welcome.

Gerry

[Fungalpunk]

Daedaleopsis confragosa and maybe Pluteus umbrosus although it isn't as well marked as other specimens. Gill colour would have been an help but hey ho - afterthoughts are wonderful things.

[GerryNick2]

Hi Fungalpunk

Nice to have you onboard we need all the experts we can get, like the website by the way.

Agree with you the first is Daedaleopsis confragosa.

The second one was what I took to be a bracket growing off a petrified log laying on the stream bed. It was too low down to see underneath, my thoughts given the markings, that it might be a juvenile Polyporus squamosus 'Dryads Saddle' which can vary quite a bit in colour and markings.

Now you mention Pluteus umbrosus its got me wondering whether it was actually growing on a stem from the ground and just wedged under the log. Although it was 15cm across which seems a bit big for Pluteus umbrosus, however the markings are very similar.

Like you say 'if only', looks like its going to remain one of lifes little mysteries.

Regards Gerry

p.s. since these were taken now got into the habit of getting shots of the gills etc as a matter of course.