I.D and help re: unknown bracket

[dickie'sbird]

Hello Everyone,

Is this Artists bracket - Ganoderma applanatum?...it's the layering that makes me wonder if it could be. It's hard to identify the rotting tree trunk it was growing on but there were a few very mature Horse Chestnuts in the vicinity.

Many thanks for any help,

Jean

[flaxton]

It has the shape more associated with G applanatum but they do vary so spores or a view of the internal structure would be the only way forward.

Mal

[hamadryad]

The rotten tree is a beech by the looks, the fact it is covered in the black ascomycete hypoxylon mummularium also helps Ident the substrate a lot.

I will give you g. applanatum as g australe is a biotrophic parasite and would be panic fruiting (several small mall formed bulbs) rather than activley growing and doing fine as with the necrotrophic G applanatum=lipsiense

In my amateur opinion.

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by hamadryad

The rotten tree is a beech by the looks, the fact it is covered in the black ascomycete hypoxylon mummularium also helps Ident the substrate a lot.

I will give you g. applanatum as g australe is a biotrophic parasite and would be panic fruiting (several small mall formed bulbs) rather than activley growing and doing fine as with the necrotrophic G applanatum=lipsiense

In my amateur opinion.

When you start regularly using upper case letters for the genus, you will be able to say err..." in my more experienced opinion " ?

Neil.

[hamadryad]

Originally Posted by fairplay

When you start regularly using upper case letters for the genus, you will be able to say err..." in my more experienced opinion " ?

Neil.

Nah, i like being amateur, it enables me to get away with not knowing a lot!