ID please?

[Steve114]

Any help with the identity of this fungus would be welcome. It is growing on rotting wood but I haven't got any other information on it.

Thanks
Steve

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Steve114

Any help with the identity of this fungus would be welcome. It is growing on rotting wood but I haven't got any other information on it.

Thanks
Steve

almost certainly it's the bracket fungus Bjerkandera adusta - see: http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/18655.jpg (which isn't as good/sharp an image as yours!); a view of the underside would clinch it

best wishes

Chris

[Steve114]

Many thanks for this ID and the link. I've just done a search on this species and the specimens shown are very variable. Many don't look much like the one I photographed. I guess the appearance depends on the age of the specimen.

[fairplay]

I agree too with Chris, but there is another species: B.fumosa, but I know very little about it, except it is quite similar, but has a preference for Salix.

Neil.

[Steve114]

Thanks for your comment. Having looked at pictures of both species in the WAB Gallery, I think it fits most closely with B, adusta.
Steve