Brackets on deciduous trees

[JennyS]

The three below were all on live or dead deciduous trunks:

Q1 Crepidotus? On dead tree trunk in dampish woodland. Mainly Alder but also Salix, Oak etc.
Q1b:

Q2 Trametes? On Silver Birch


Q3 On dead tree trunk, I remember thinking dead Prunus at the time, but I can't remember why so species is uncertain.


Help, confirmation or ID appreciated,
Jenny

[fairplay]

Hi Jenny,

I should know your No 1 as it has been on this forum a few times in the past, but it's not a Crepidotus.

I'm even not too confident with your No 2 as those pores seem odd, but I shall opt for Bjerkandera adusta.

Last is Chondrostereum purpureum - the causer of Silver Leaf disease.

Oh, to have my memory back ! (I forget where I left it.)

Neil.

[diggleken]

Hi Jenny
1 might be split gill, schyizophylum commune looks a bit strange, but certainly close to it.
2 might be arbutiporus biennis, with those pores.
All from memory, so,like Neil, could be well wrong!!! Old age and all that.
Cheers
Ken

[Ditiola]

Hi

No.1
I have looked at the photo of the single fruit body at full size and their is no sign of any split gills

The gross veining of the gills is reminiscent of Panelus stipticus

With pleurotoid agarics I think it is always best to start form a spore print to find out if it has white pink or brown spores. Even when the spore colour is determined a microscope is often required especially for Crepitotus species.

Peter

[stickman]

Originally Posted by fairplay

I should know your No 1 as it has been on this forum a few times in the past, but it's not a Crepidotus.

Neil, are you thinking of Panellus stipticus perchance?

Oops Peter got there first!

Nick.

[fairplay]

It's no use, I had to get me book out in the end !

I thought Schizopyllum too, but in the close up, those h'aint split gills , so looking deeper, it's got to be Panellus stypticus.

Abortiporus biennis is one I am quite familiar with, and all I can say is although it grows from wood, it usually arises from a central point and never grows in brackets or tiers like this. But who knows ?

Neil.

EDIT Nick you rotter, you beat me to it, only by a minute though !

[JennyS]

So much for my attempts to at least try to get the genus right

Thank you all for your help with IDs and comments .... if I ever get to a point where lichens start to make a bit more sense I'll have more time to try and get better at non-lichenised fungi!

[fairplay]

Better late than never - I only just noticed that Peter got there with Panellus stypticus before me and Nick.

Neil.

[stickman]

Yeah I was keeping quiet about that.

Nick.

[Ditiola]

I hadn’t realised WAB was so competitive, is there any prizes for being first at the post, I will have to see if I can do it again

Peter