ID required - 2 brackets found on dead birch

[Kev Stephenson]

I have been sent here by one of your members (Hamadryad) from the arbtalk website as the members on that forum have drawn a blank on the ID of this. The twin stems are causing the confusion

They are approx the size of your hand and pictures were taken in the last 2 weeks. The tree is in a mixed woodland in the lake district. Sorry no smell or taste, I am new to this ID'ing.

Any help much appreciated.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Kev Stephenson

I have been sent here by one of your members (Hamadryad) from the arbtalk website as the members on that forum have drawn a blank on the ID of this. The twin stems are causing the confusion

They are approx the size of your hand and pictures were taken in the last 2 weeks. The tree is in a mixed woodland in the lake district. Sorry no smell or taste, I am new to this ID'ing.

Any help much appreciated.

hi Kev

as often happens what appears on WAB is the weird and the atypical - a bit like posting a picture of a bird which has lost its feathers, or a plant suffering from fasciation . . . .

this isn't what we would normally call a "bracket": it's an agaric (toadstool/mushroom/whatever)

the double stem is just freakish, and of no taxonomic value whatsoever; the general appearance, plus the interveining on the gills would strongly suggest an abnormal growth form of Mycena galericulata

cheers

Chris

[NickCantle]

M. galericulata for me too- the inter-veining drew me to that immediately. A great example against the light

[Kev Stephenson]

Thanks for this, it also appears you are from my neck of the woods, I live in Meltham.